04791cam a2200865 4500 572174992 TxAuBib 20220704120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385537636 0385537638 B00EBRU0AS Amazon a6f8a0ab-f207-4ff8-b815-91fc8a5b8f5f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1371718 OverDrive (Product ID) 226474 226474 226474 TxAuBib Lawhon, Ariel. The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress [Libby (Advantage) eBook] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3577kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. mystery thriller suspense. historical fiction books. Historical mysteries. Historical Fiction. Historical Romance. historical mystery. Alternate History. unsolved mystery. book club gifts. thriller books. disappearance. new york city. mystery books. times square. coney island. tammany hall. Prohibition. conspiracy. Historical. politician. Thrillers. gangsters. speakeasy. suspense. mobsters. showgirl. mistress. broadway. Thriller. betrayal. Cocktail. Jazz Age. romance. Fiction. mystery. missing. police. 1930s. 1920s. love. HTML:<b>“Inspired by a real-life unsolved mystery, this <i>mesmerizing</i> novel features characters that make a lasting impression.”—PEOPLE MAGAZINE<br /> <br /> "More meticulously choreographed than a chorus line. It all pays off."—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW<br /> <br /></b> <i><br /> They say behind every great man, there's a woman. In this case, there are three.</i> Stella Crater, the judge's wife, is the picture of propriety draped in long pearls and the latest Chanel. Ritzi, a leggy showgirl with Broadway aspirations, thinks moonlighting in the judge's bed is the quickest way off the chorus line. Maria Simon, the dutiful maid, has the judge to thank for her husband's recent promotion to detective in the NYPD. Meanwhile, Crater is equally indebted to Tammany Hall leaders and the city's most notorious gangster, Owney "The Killer" Madden.<br /> <br /> On a sultry summer night, as rumors circulate about the judge's involvement in wide-scale political corruption, the Honorable Joseph Crater steps into a cab and disappears without a trace. <i>Or does he?</i><br /> <br /> After 39 years of necessary duplicity, Stella Crater is finally ready to reveal what she knows. Sliding into a plush leather banquette at Club Abbey, the site of many absinthe-soaked affairs and the judge's favorite watering hole back in the day, Stella orders two whiskeys on the rocks—one for her and one in honor of her missing husband. Stirring the ice cubes in the lowball glass, Stella begins to tell a tale—of greed, lust, and deceit. As the novel unfolds and the women slyly break out of their prescribed roles, it becomes clear that each knows more than she has initially let on.<br /> <br /> With a layered intensity and prose as effervescent as the bubbly that flows every night, <i>The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress</i> is a wickedly entertaining historical mystery that will transport readers to a bygone era with tipsy spins through subterranean jazz clubs and backstage dressing rooms. But beneath the Art Deco skyline and amid the intoxicating smell of smoke and whiskey, the question of why Judge Crater disappeared lingers seductively until a twist in the very last pages. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Mystery. Romance. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-04 20:00:03. Advantage title. https://samples.overdrive.com/wife-the-maid?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/wife-the-maid?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/wife-the-maid?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)