Not They Who Soar
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- USD 12.99
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- USD 12.99
Descripción editorial
The equally brilliant real-life sister of the famous flying Wright Brothers, Katharine Wright, investigates an unsettling death at the 1904 World's Fair in this radiant new historical mystery in USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower’s Agatha Award-winning series.
Summer 1904. Katharine and her best friend from Oberlin College, Margaret Goodwin Meacham, are thrilled to attend the St. Louis Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, for the centennial celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Not only is it a grand, international event, it’s also the first time the young women have seen each other in quite a while, and they are giddy with excitement—despite warnings from Katharine's old family friend, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, to be careful of the fair’s less seemly side.
Undaunted, the girls have a lovely time—until the exposition turns from a girls’ trip to a misadventure when Katharine stumbles upon a woman in distress. It’s obvious that she has been attacked. Katharine does her best to save her, but tragically, before help can arrive, the woman dies. Yet just before her last breath, she utters the words aeronautics competition. . . . Katharine’s brothers Wilbur and Orville were asked to enter the competition with their successful 1903 flyer but declined. Katharine wonders how this young woman could be connected to such a prestigious event.
Now, unable to get the woman’s face out of her mind, Katharine convinces Margaret to join her investigation—and it’s soon clear that the race to be declared the first in flight might just be the deadliest competition of them all . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Flower's dazzling second mystery featuring Wilbur and Orville Wright's sister, Katharine (after To Slip the Bonds of the Earth), is even better than the first. In 1904, Katharine travels from Ohio to St. Louis to attend the World's Fair with her best friend, Margaret Meacham. Though the expo features an aeronautical competition, Katharine's brothers have stayed home, convinced they can't compete with the lineup of hot air balloons. Shortly after Katharine arrives at the St. Louis train station, a breathless young woman fleeing a group of men asks for her help, then dashes away. Katharine pushes the encounter from her mind—until she finds the young woman dying near a Brazilian pilot's sabotaged balloon. The stranger's final words, "aeronautic competition," move Katharine and Margaret to dig into the fair's seedy underbelly. Flower plays scrupulously fair with readers, and she continues to mold Katharine into a top-shelf gumshoe without stretching credibility or straying too far from the historical record. This series deserves a long run.