01736cam a2200349 i 4500 870663476 OCoLC 20241002150426.0 140217s2014 nyu 000 1 eng d 9780345805966 (OCoLC)870663476 AJM n-us-ny Lawhon, Ariel, author. 15695 The wife, the maid, and the mistress : a novel / Ariel Lawhon. First Anchor books edition. New York : Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2014. 307 pages ; 21 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "With new epilogue"--Cover. 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 ... Crater, Joseph Force, 1889- Fiction. 18428 Judges New York (State) New York Fiction. 18429 Missing persons Fiction. 5894 Biographical fiction. gsafd. 975 Historical fiction. gsafd. 129 Mystery fiction. gsafd. 670 .b189073597 ddc BOOK 30095 30095 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-10-02 18.00 2 LAWH 66548 2025-08-19 2025-08-07 2024-10-02 BOOK 1