Death of a Robber Baron, A Pamela Thompson, Gilded Age Mystery by Charles O'Brien, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Death of a Robber Baron by Charles O'Brien, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Kensington.

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Death of a Robber Baron by Charles O'Brien
A Pamela Thompson, Gilded Age Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Kensington

Set amidst the glittering enclaves of money, power, and privilege in America's tumultuous Gilded Age, private detective Pamela Thompson is drawn into an elite world where fortunes are flaunted and scandals are hidden — one body at time …

New York City, 1891. In the spirit of Christmas, Mrs. Pamela Thompson has devoted herself to charity work, even taking an orphaned child into her Greenwich Village townhome. Her husband Jack, an ambitious banker, agrees to such generous acts as long as his wife allows him to invest his time — and her trust fund — in more lucrative opportunities. But when he risks their entire fortune on questionable copper stocks, Pamela ends up losing everything: her house, her inheritance, and even her husband.

Penniless, Pamela is forced to move into a boarding house in the Lower East Side and accept a position at Macy's — as a store detective. Displaying an uncanny knack for the job, she's asked to investigate a private matter of thievery at a palatial "cottage" in the Berkshires. Ironically, her employer is none other than Henry Jennings, the infamous "Copper King" who sold bad stocks to her husband. But when the filthy rich scoundrel is found dead in his study, Pamela holds herself accountable — for sorting out this whole sordid business of money, motives … and murder.

  

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