The Pearl Dagger
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
As the Great Depression loosens its grip on New York City, Mayor La Guardia and his team meet their greatest foe in the fight against organized crime …
Lane Sanders and her fiery boss, Mayor Fiorello “Fio” La Guardia have managed to contain the explosive underground conspiracies of New York’s most sinister schemers. But after a seemingly harmless pinball racket claims the life of a trusted ally, a new ringleader signals the rebirth of an all-too-familiar crime network at home and across the pond …
Spurred on by the possibility of a violent syndicate spreading like wildfire through Europe, Lane sets sail for London—the city where her parents began the undercover work that led to their tragic undoing. And this time, she won’t chase down childhood nightmares without Finn Brodie, who vows to dispel his own difficult secrets abroad …
While Finn confronts a devious sibling’s plot that echoes Orson Welles’s Voodoo Macbeth, Lane discovers that a dazzling pearl dagger may wield the ultimate clue to guide their hunt for justice on two sides of the ocean. With terrors from the past and present converging, Lane can’t save herself unless she starts believing that, like her weapon of choice, she also has the power to be both beautiful and dangerous.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1937, Chandlar's frenetic third Art Deco mystery (after 2018's The Gold Pawn) is a paean to Depression-era New York City. After a cop friend is killed in an ambush, feisty Lane Sanders, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's personal aide, and her detective boyfriend, Finn Brodie, stumble on a gangland threat to the crime-busting mayor. Evidence points to an international crime syndicate called the Red Scroll Network being behind the plot. But Red Scroll collapsed years earlier when mastermind Rex Ruby died. Could Ruby have an heir who is resurrecting his criminal empire? To find out, La Guardia sends Lane and Finn to England, where they uncover secrets, not least of which is that the Red Scroll is somehow connected to the mysterious deaths of Lane's parents when she was 10 years old. It's easy to get lost in the myriad plot threads of this gleefully rendered story with its colorful characters, both real and fictional. Readers who don't mind lengthy digressions and a surfeit of period detail will have fun.