Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award 2015 — Nominated Faith healers,
movie moguls, and social-climbing fraudsters collide in
Depression-era Los Angeles It’s the Great Depression and Mary
Mabel McTavish is suicidal. A drudge at the Bentwhistle Academy for
Young Ladies (aka Wealthy Juvenile Delinquents), she is at London
General Hospital when little Timmy Beeford is carried into
emergency and pronounced dead. He was electrocuted at an
evangelical road show when the metal cross on top of the revival
tent was struck by lightning. Believing she’s guided by her late
mother, Mary Mabel lays on hands. Timmy promptly returns to life.
William Randolph Hearst gets wind of the story and soon the Miracle
Maid is rocketing from the Canadian backwoods to ’30s Hollywood.
Jack Warner, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Rockettes round out a cast of
Ponzi promoters, Bolshevik hoboes, and double-dealing social
climbers in a fast-paced tale that satirizes the religious right,
media manipulation, celebrity, and greed.
General
| Imprint: |
Dundurn Group
|
| Country of origin: |
Canada |
| Release date: |
April 2014 |
| First published: |
May 2014 |
| Authors: |
Allan Stratton
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
352 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4597-0849-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
1-4597-0849-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781459708495 |
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