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050	0	0	_aPS3569.M39 _bG65 2015
082	1		_aFIC SMI _2
100	1		_aSmiley, Jane
245	1	0	_aA dangerous business : _ba novel _c/ Jane Smiley.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2022
300			_a207 p. _c; 24 cm
520			_aMonterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's detective, Dupin, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer, all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and more suspicious. Eliza and Jean are determined not just to survive but to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West-a bewitching combination of beauty and danger-as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. As Mrs. Parks says, 'Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business, but between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise...
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aBrothels _v--Fiction
650		4	_aMurder _x-Investigation _x-Fiction
651		4	_aCalifornia _v--Fiction
655		4	_aMystery fiction
942			_cMO
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