A resolution at midnight

A resolution at midnight

Shelley Noble

Book - 2020

"It's Christmas in Gilded Age Manhattan. And for the first time ever an amazing giant ball will drop along a rod on the roof of the New York Times building to ring in the New Year. Everyone plans to attend the event. But the murder of a prominent newsman hits a little too close to home. And when a young newspaper woman, a protégé of the great Jacob Riis and old Vassar school chum of Bev's, is the target of a similar attack, it is clear this is not just a single act of violence but a conspiracy of malicious proportions"--

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Subjects
Widows > Fiction.
Aristocracy (Social class) > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Journalists > Crimes against > Fiction.
British > United States > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951 > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Christmas fiction.
Genres
Detective and mystery fiction
Historical fiction
Christmas fiction
Published
New York : Forge 2020.
Language
English
Main Author
Shelley Noble (author)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Physical Description
365 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781250750266
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Christmas in 1907 New York City provides the backdrop for Noble's enticing third Lady Dunbridge mystery (after 2019's Tell Me No Lies). Since moving to New York, the beautiful, witty Philomena Amesbury, widowed Countess of Dunbridge, has been carrying out the occasional undercover detective operation for the mysterious Mr. X. Lady Phil's latest assignment is to meet a source at a movie theater, but when she arrives, she finds the man dead, his throat cut. The murdered man, Tommy Green, a reporter for the New York Times, was going to pass off some important information for Mr. X. But the newspaper reports that Green's body was found at the docks. Why is the murder being covered up, and by whom? With the help of her faithful, clever servants and an intrepid female reporter who is desperate to get off the society beat, Phil uncovers a complex scheme involving blackmail, greed, and family secrets that lead directly to the top of New York society. Colorful period details include the first Times Square New Year's Eve ball drop in 1908. Historical fans will be well satisfied. Agent: Kevin Lyon, Marsal Lyon Literary. (Oct.)

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