DDC/MDS
| 813/.54 |
Publication
New York : Viking press, 1982.
Status
Available
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LibraryThing member quinncannon
Explores the real, unsolved New York murder of Helen Jewett, a high class prostitute who was killed in her own bed in 1836. Our fictional heroes are Lon Quinncannon, sardonic Irish lawyer and Davy Corder, young reporter. Full of the details of the absolutely mad rivalry between the many New York
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newspapers, the corruption and incompetence of almost every public official, and the exuberance of New York City at a time when "we were 200,000 souls in a wooden city". Oh, and Lon solves the case. Show Less
Physical description
322 p.; 24 cm
ISBN
0670703710 / 9780670703715