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The girl in the polka dot dress / Beryl Bainbridge

By:

Bainbridge, Beryl, , 1933-2010

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Little, Brown , 2011Description: 197 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781609450564

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Detective and mystery stories

DDC classification:

FIC BAI

LOC classification:

PR6052.A3195 G57 2011

Summary: It is the spring of 1968. A young English woman, Rose, has traveled to America for the first time in search of a man who witnessed a terrible act of murder and retribution, the elusive Dr. Wheeler. In Baltimore she meets another American, Washington Harold, who, haunted by his wife's death, wants to find Wheeler and learn the reason for her suicide. The two travel together in righteous anger in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination and consumed by conspiratiorial politics brought on by the disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Rose's journey ends that June in Los Angeles at the Ambassador Hotel the night the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, Robert Kennedy, has his rendezvous with destiny.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC BAI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		014395

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It is the spring of 1968. A young English woman, Rose, has traveled to America for the first time in search of a man who witnessed a terrible act of murder and retribution, the elusive Dr. Wheeler. In Baltimore she meets another American, Washington Harold, who, haunted by his wife's death, wants to find Wheeler and learn the reason for her suicide. The two travel together in righteous anger in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination and consumed by conspiratiorial politics brought on by the disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Rose's journey ends that June in Los Angeles at the Ambassador Hotel the night the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, Robert Kennedy, has his rendezvous with destiny.

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