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The pearl of Ruby City / Jana Harris.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5981
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Jana, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women detectives--Washington (State)--Fiction.
- Women detectives.
- Washington (State)--Fiction.
- Washington (State).
- Laundresses--Fiction.
- Laundresses.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Harris, Jana, 1947- (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [10], 354 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- While working as a laundress in an 1890s mining camp in Washington State to earn money for medical school, Pearl Ryan investigates the death of the town's mayor.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy signed by the author in blue ink on title leaf.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0312193157
- 9780312193157
- OCLC:
- 39013850
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