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Gin and panic a mystery

Former socialite Lola Woodby, not-so-discreet private eye in Prohibition-era New York City, along with her grim Swedish sidekick, Berta, take on a piece-of-cake job: retrieving a rhinoceros trophy from the Connecticut mansion of big game hunter Rudy Montgomery. After all, their client, Lord Sudley,...

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Main Author: Chance, Maia (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Minotaur Books, 2017.
Edition: First edition.
Series: Discreet Retrieval Agency mysteries ; 3.
Subjects:
Murder > Fiction.
Prohibition > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Summary: Former socialite Lola Woodby, not-so-discreet private eye in Prohibition-era New York City, along with her grim Swedish sidekick, Berta, take on a piece-of-cake job: retrieving a rhinoceros trophy from the Connecticut mansion of big game hunter Rudy Montgomery. After all, their client, Lord Sudley, promises them a handsome paycheck, and the gin and tonics will be free. But no sooner do they arrive at Montgomery Hall than Rudy is shot dead with a houseful of suspicious characters standing by. Lord Sudley ups the ante, and Lola and Berta take the case. Armed with handbags stuffed with emergency chocolate, gin flasks, and a Colt .25, Lola and Berta are swiftly embroiled in a madcap puzzle of stolen diamonds, family secrets, a clutch of gangsters, and a flapper who knows her way around a safari rifle. Gin and Panic continues the Discreet Retrieval Agency Mysteries from beloved crime writer Maia Chance.
Physical Description: 278 pages : 22 cm
ISBN: 9781250109057
1250109051
Author Notes: Maia Chance is an American author, born in the late 1970's in Washington state. She began writing as a teenager and finished her first novel in her twenty's. She is working to complete her PhD dissertation in English Literature, focusing on 19th century New England writing. Her first novel was Snow White Red-handed. It was published in 2014, and is the first book in the Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery series. The next books in the series are Cinderella Six Feet Under, Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna, and Sleeping Beauty, Borrowed Time. Her other series include the Discreet Retrieval Agency Mystery, which has Come Hell or Highball, Teetotaled, and Gin and Panic. Her latest work is Bad Housekeeping, which is the first book the Agnes and Effie Mystery series. She wrote a standalone novel, The Trophy Wives of Alpenrose.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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