Fortune favors the dead: a novel

✍ Scribed by Stephen Spotswood

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 186 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York (N.Y.), New York (State)--New York.
• ISBN: 0385546564

✦ Synopsis

**"Bullets, blood, bodies, and belly-laughs: all the ingredients of a classic mystery novel. Stephen Spotswood hard-boils with the best of 'em!" --Alan Bradley, bestselling author of the Flavia de Luce Mystery Series

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**A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics,****Fortune Favors the Deadintroduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages.
It's 1942 and Willowjean "Will" Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York's best, and most unorthodox, private investigator, Lillian Pentecost. When the dapper detective summons Will a few days later, she doesn't expect to be offered a life-changing proposition: Lillian's multiple sclerosis means she can't keep up with her old case load alone, so she wants to hire Will to be her right-hand woman. In return, Will is to receive a salary, room and...

✦ Subjects

Spiritualists -- Fiction