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A Lack of Temperance by Anna Loan-Wilsey. A Hattie Davish Mystery.
Review summary: There is a good sense of time and place in this debut mystery, with an engaging amateur sleuth as its central character. The series premise is also a promising one, having this traveling secretary visit different settings to solve local crimes. (Click here for text of full review.)
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A Lack of Temperance
Anna Loan-Wilsey
A Hattie Davish Mystery
Kensington Books (September 2012)
Publisher synopsis: Have typewriter will travel...and track down dead bodies. Not the usual motto for a Victorian private secretary and certainly not what Miss Hattie Davish has in mind when she responds to the latest summons for her services. On the eve of the 1892 Election, Hattie arrives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a booming health spa and vacation resort, hoping to hike the hills, botanize and placate the demands of her newest high-society employer. Yet her employer is missing, and this idyllic Ozark village is being plagued by a league of temperance women attacking saloons with hatchets and bricks, a city council candidate fighting in the streets and a trail of cryptic death threats. With her reputation and life on the line, Hattie will put more than her trusty typewriter to the test.
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