Death of an American Beauty
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"Jane Prescott is taking a break from her duties as lady's maid for a week, and plans to begin it with attending the hottest and most scandalous show in town: the opening of an art exhibition, showcasing the cubists, that is shocking New York City. 1913 is also the fiftieth anniversary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation speech, and the city's great and good are determined to celebrate in style. Dolly Rutherford, heiress to the glamorous Rutherford's department store empire, has gathered her coterie of society ladies to put on a play-with Jane's employer Louise Tyler in the starring role as Lincoln himself. Jane is torn between helping the ladies with their costumes and enjoying her holiday. But fate decides she will do neither, when a woman is found murdered outside Jane's childhood home--a refuge for women run by her uncle. Deeply troubled as her uncle falls under suspicion and haunted by memories of a woman she once knew, Jane--with the help of old friends and new acquaintances, reporter Michael Behan and music hall pianist Leo Hirschfeld--is determined to discover who is making death into their own twisted art form."-- Provided by publisher.
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Jane Prescott series
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PUBLISHED
New York : Minotaur Books, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: viii, 259 pages ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781250210883
1250210887
SUBJECTS
Lady's maids -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- New York -- Fiction.
Women's shelters -- Fiction.
Cubism -- Fiction.
Art -- Fiction.
Nineteen tens -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.