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"In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell Gate ride with a young girl, and emerge alone, she knows that something horrific has occurred. The crime will lead her to the iconic outsider artist Henry Darger, a brilliant but seemingly mad man. Together, the two navigate the seedy underbelly of a changing city to uncover a murderer few even know to look for.-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Year Published: 2019
Description: 373 pages ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780316485883
0316485888
SUBJECTS
Darger, Henry, -- 1892-1973 -- Fiction.
Women detectives -- Chicago -- Fiction.
Gangs -- Chicago -- Fiction.
Amusement parks -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Murderers -- Fiction.
Riverview Amusement Park (Chicago, Ill.) -- Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.