02774cam a2200421 i 4500 623923850 TxAuBib 20221217120000.0 220722s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593664018 paperback; large print 0593664019 paperback; large print (OCoLC)1338027826 TOH TOH eng eng rda rda TOH rda Y$5 rda TOH PX0 GZD TxAuBib Y$5 PX0 GZD TxAuBib rda Smiley, Jane, author. A Dangerous Business / By Jane Smiley. First large print edition. New York : Random House Large Print, 2022. 289 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's detective, Dupin, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer, all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and more suspicious. Eliza and Jean are determined not just to survive but to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West-a bewitching combination of beauty and danger-as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. As Mrs. Parks says, 'Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business, but between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise . . . '"-- Provided by publisher. 20221217. Widows Fiction. Prostitutes Fiction. Prostitutes California 19th century Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Murder Fiction. Brothels California Fiction. Brothels Fiction. Young women Crimes Fiction. California History 19th century Fiction. Large print books. lcgft Mystery fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft Fiction. lcgft TXKPL