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The wife, the maid, and the mistress / Ariel Lawhon.
Van Pelt Library PS3601.L447 G66 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawhon, Ariel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crater, Joseph Force, 1889---Fiction.
- Crater, Joseph Force.
- Crater, Joseph Force, 1889-.
- Judges--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Judges.
- Missing persons--Fiction.
- Missing persons.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 307 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Wife, the maid, & the mistress
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, [2014]
- Summary:
- Stella Crater, the judge's wife, is the picture of propriety. 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. 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. Or does he? After 39 years of necessary duplicity, Stella Crater is finally ready to reveal what she knows....
- ISBN:
- 9780385537629
- 038553762X
- OCLC:
- 841509511
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