The a novel Lawhon, Ariel creator author. text Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Mystery fiction. nyu 2014 First Anchor books edition. monographic eng

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307 pages ; 21 cm. 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 ... Ariel Lawhon. "With new epilogue"--Cover. n-us-ny Crater, Joseph Force 1889- Fiction Judges New York (State) New York Fiction Missing persons Fiction 9780345805966 140217 20241002150426.0 870663476