****In Gilded-Age New York, not all that glitters is gold in a chilling murder mystery that careens from the city's poshest sanctuaries to its meanest streets.**** **New York City, summer 1889.** Society girl-turned-investigative journalist Genevieve Stewart and wealthy Daniel McCaffrey have arrived
Betrayal on the Bowery
β Scribed by Kate Belli
- Book ID
- 100483884
- Publisher
- Crooked Lane Books
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 305 KB
- Series
- Gilded Gotham 2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781643857596
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β¦ Synopsis
In Gilded-Age New York, not all that glitters is gold in a chilling murder mystery that careens from the city's poshest sanctuaries to its meanest streets.
New York City, summer 1889. Society girl-turned-investigative journalist Genevieve Stewart and wealthy Daniel McCaffrey have arrived at the docks to see their friends, Rupert and Esmie Milton, off on their honeymoon. But the romantic idyll comes to a screeching halt when a crazed man bursts into their stateroom screaming about demons and drops dead before their eyes.
The dead man is Marcus Dalrymple, who had once asked Esmie to marry himβand inside Marcus's pocket, Daniel finds a medallion that they trace to a Lower East Side bar called Boyle's Suicide Tavern. The medallions are prizes given to anyone who spends the night there without dying.
Clearly, a visit to Boyle's could prove hazardous, but it may offer the only clue to Dalrymple's death. Genevieve and Daniel barely escape the bar with their...
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