TY - BOOK AU - Lawhon,Ariel TI - The wife, the maid, and the mistress: a novel SN - 9780345805966 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC KW - Crater, Joseph Force, KW - Judges KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Fiction KW - Missing persons KW - Biographical fiction KW - gsafd KW - Historical fiction KW - Mystery fiction N1 - "With new epilogue"--Cover N2 - 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 ER -