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It's 1943, and the war raging across the pond seems far away. But for aspiring actress Rosie Winter, New York City is another combat zone, what with food rationing, frequent blackouts, and a boyfriend she hasn't heard from since he enlisted in the navy. Now with rent due and no acting roles in sight, Rosie grabs a part-time job at a seamy detective agency—where chasing cheating spouses is only the beginning . . .
When her boss turns up dead, Rosie finds herself caught up in a high society mystery, mingling with mobsters and searching for a notorious missing script. Maybe she has no crime-fighting experience—but Rosie certainly knows how to play the part. No matter how the war against Miss Winter turns out, it's not going to end with her surrender!
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- ISBN: 9780061758515
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- ISBN: 9780061758515
- File size: 1279 KB
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- English
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April 23, 2007
S
et in New York City, Haines’s assured debut brings the WWII era to vivid life, from a topical jump-rope song (“Whistle while you work. Hitler is a jerk...”) to Automats and jive joints. On New Year’s Eve 1942, actress Rosie Winter, whose day job is with a Manhattan detective agency, finds the body of her boss, Sam McCain, hanging in his office closet, his hands and neck tied with phone cord. The investigating cop calls Sam’s death a well-deserved suicide, but there’s a missing play that a reclusive playwright and a rich widow want found. Rosie, a fast-thinking Hepburn type, takes on the case, aided by her best pal, Jayne (“a petite blonde with... the voice of a two-year-old” dubbed “America’s squeakheart”). This is a fun romp, though the author, herself a playwright and actor, provides some dark commentary on avant-garde theater and war as well as an unexpected and wicked twist in the novel’s final act.
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