Chin Music
A Novel of the Jazz Age
New York City in 1922 saw showpeople like Fanny Brice and Harry Houdini rubbing shoulders with confidence men and bootleggers like Arnold Rothstein, the gambler reputed to have fixed the 1919 World Series. Henrietta Fine, a precocious sixteen-year-old apprentice locksmith, weaves in and out of this world, living by her wits and the double-cross. Her safe cracking skills make her useful to both Houdini and to the wily Rothstein, who provides cover for her after the police implicate her in a diamond heist. Her picaresque adventures take her from the woods of New Jersey, whose secret Indian trails afford escape from red-baiting anti-semtic mobs,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4616-6377-5
- EAN: 9781461663775
- Produktnummer: 20437937
- Verlag: Roberts Rinehart
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'450 KB
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By Paul M. Levitt
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