It's 1943, and Mobile, Alabama, is a wartime boomtown under siege
by thousands of newcomers who have left the backwoods and
overworked cotton fields to seek their fortune in the city's
bustling shipyards. Shantytowns and tent cities are erected to
shelter those who aren't crammed into every available room and
boarding house. Schools work in shifts but can't meet the demand;
garbage and sewage problems cause rumors of typhoid, and out on the
streets, young women are disappearing. In the absence of success by
the city's undermanned and overworked police force to get leads on
a white slavery ring, the fate of the missing women depends on the
efforts of three people with different motives: private
investigator Frank Lundy, a football legend who's 4-F and sensitive
about it; police reporter Valerie Gilbreath, a former debutante and
Mardi Gras queen just beginning her newspaper career; and Alfred
Page, an AWOL black soldier targeted for murder by a manic swamp
dweller who comes to town with revenge on his mind and supports
himself by doing dirty work for the kidnapping ring. There's one
thing they all agree on: Sally McGinn never should have gone down
to the neon district on a school night.
General
Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2012 |
First published: |
June 2012 |
Authors: |
David Reichart
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
210 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4775-4565-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Crime & mystery >
Historical mysteries
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LSN: |
1-4775-4565-4 |
Barcode: |
9781477545652 |
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