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The bestselling author of the Joshua Croft series delivers a sparkling follow-up that reunites the murder mystery-solving duo of Lizzie Borden and Amanda Burton in Jazz Age New York Sixteen-year-old Amanda is spending the summer with her suave and easygoing uncle John at the Dakota Apartments, opposite the green sprawl of New York's Central Park. When John isn't doing something mysterious with stocks and bonds, he and Amanda enjoy the very best the Roaring Twenties have to offer. However, in a single brutal night, everything changes. Suddenly, Amanda is alone, far from home, and fighting for her life in a city that has abandoned her. Fortunately, there's one person Amanda can trust: Miss Lizzie Borden. Together, the two of them manage to work out a twisted passage toward what might be survival through the narrow streets of nighttime New York.
About the Author
Walter Satterthwait (b. 1946) is an author of mysteries and historical fiction. A fan of mystery novels from a young age, he spent high school immersed in the works of Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane. While working as a bartender in New York in the late 1970s, he wrote his first book: an adventure novel, Cocaine Blues (1979) , about a drug dealer on the run from a pair of killers. After his second thriller, The Aegean Affair (1982) , Satterthwait created his best-known character, Santa Fe private detective Joshua Croft. Beginning with Wall of Glass (1988) , Satterthwait wrote five Croft novels, concluding the series with 1996's Accustomed to the Dark. In between Croft books, he wrote mysteries starring historical figures, including Miss Lizzie (1989) , a novel about Lizzie Borden, and Wilde West (1991) , a western mystery starring Oscar Wilde. His most recent novel is Dead Horse (2007) , an account of the mysterious death of Depression-era pulp writer Raoul Whitfield.
