000 01736cam a2200349 i 4500
001 870663476
003 OCoLC
005 20241002150426.0
008 140217s2014 nyu 000 1 eng d
020 _a9780345805966
035 _a(OCoLC)870663476
040 _cAJM
043 _an-us-ny
100 1 _aLawhon, Ariel,
_eauthor.
_915695
245 1 4 _aThe wife, the maid, and the mistress :
_ba novel /
_cAriel Lawhon.
250 _aFirst Anchor books edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bAnchor Books, a division of Random House LLC,
_c2014.
300 _a307 pages ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"With new epilogue"--Cover.
520 _aStella 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 ...
600 1 0 _aCrater, Joseph Force,
_d1889-
_vFiction.
_918428
650 0 _aJudges
_zNew York (State)
_zNew York
_vFiction.
_918429
650 0 _aMissing persons
_vFiction.
_95894
655 7 _aBiographical fiction.
_2gsafd.
_9975
655 7 _aHistorical fiction.
_2gsafd.
_9129
655 7 _aMystery fiction.
_2gsafd.
_9670
907 _a.b189073597
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK
999 _c30095
_d30095