The Ghosts' High Noon
β Scribed by John Dickson Carr
- Book ID
- 110600280
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 234 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781480472778
- ASIN
- B00ISH77O4
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The Ghosts' High Noon
byΒ John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr, one of the masters of the British-style detective novel, evokes the danger and delights of 1912 New Orleans in this puzzling murder mystery
Journalist and spy novelist Jim Blake takes an assignment forΒ Harperβs WeeklyΒ that puts him on a train to New Orleans, where congressional candidate James Claiborne Blake is being targeted by enemies who threaten to reveal that there is a glamorous Creole courtesan in his past. But in New Orleans, a sexual indiscretion is not enough to ruin a politician. That would require murder.
When one of Clayβs supporters is found murdered, Jim Blake sets out to clear the candidateβs nameβa dangerous mission in a city that comes alive at night, where rumor can be as deadly as poison.
Ebook,Β 301 pages
Published March 25th 2014 by Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
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