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Peril at the Exposition--A Mystery

✍ Scribed by Nev March


Book ID
110618856
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Tongue
en-US
Weight
829 KB
Series
Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries Book 2
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781250855046

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Captain Jim Agnihotri and his new bride, Diana Framji, return in Nev March's Peril at the Exposition , the follow up to March's award-winning, Edgar finalist debut, Murder in Old Bombay.
1893 : Newlyweds Captain Jim Agnihotri and Diana Framji are settling into their new home in Boston, Massachusetts, having fled the strict social rules of British Bombay. It's a different life than what they left behind, but theirs is no ordinary marriage: Jim, now a detective at the Dupree Agency, is teaching Diana the art of deduction he's learned from his idol, Sherlock Holmes.
Everyone is talking about the preparations for the World's Fair in Chicago: the grandeur, the speculation, the trickery. Captain Jim will experience it first-hand: he's being sent to Chicago to investigate the murder of a man named Thomas Grewe. As Jim probes the underbelly of Chicago's docks, warehouses, and taverns, he discovers deep social unrest and some deadly ambitions.
When Jim...


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