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Scarlet Women
Scarlet Women
Author: J. D. Christilian
A prostitute clad in a green velvet gown is found murdered in a warehouse on the backstreets of 1870's Manhattan. The ball gown she is wearing has a name-label, bearing the name of the wife of prominent attorney Vance Walburton. When the police question Walburton, it emerges that his wife left him some several months earlier. Walburton hires Har...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781556114755
ISBN-10: 1556114753
Publication Date: 2/15/1996
Pages: 304
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  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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3.4 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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"It is 1871. A prominent New York attorney must go to a private investigator named Harp to find his missing young wife. She has vanished into the teeming underworld of crive and corruption beneath the city's respectable surface-a realm of sin and savagery that Harp knows better than any other man.
But even Harp is shocked at what he discovers when he tumbles over the corpse of a slain prostitute. Only one thing is sure in this labyrinth of lust and lies, where the best people do the worst things, and money can buy anything from a woman's body to a killer's skill. A monstrous murderrer is loose in Manhattan-and to catch him the kid gloves must come off...
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When the young wife of a prominent attorney goes missing in 19th-century New York, he hires the police's best investigator Harp to find her. Found in a warehouse sometime later dressed in the missing woman's velvet ball gown is a prostitute who has had her throat cut. Harp must discover who the prostitute is, why she is dressed in a ball gown and where the attorney's wife has gone. Along the way, Harp must talk to the demi-monde of society, criminals and must deal with the police themselves who don't want the case solved.

I really enjoyed this book. It had a very good plot and I give it an A!


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