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Stylishly put together with a vein of dark humour Financial Times, Best Books of 2023 Science Fiction
A supernatural mysterypart Stranger Things, part Enola Homes, but very much itself This book is way, way over the topand is sure to delight its intended audience. firstCLUE
Stranger Things meets the Golden Age of Detective fiction in a rollicking supernatural detective thriller that introduces Artie Quick, a sales assistant at Filenes in Boston, who moonlights as an amateur detective.
The year is 1909, and Artie Quickan ambitious, unorthodox and inquisitive young Bostonianwants to learn about crime. By day she holds down a job as a salesgirl in womens accessories at Filenes; by night she disguises herself as a man to pursue studies in Criminal Investigation at the YMCAs Evening Institute for Younger Men.
Eager to put theory into practice, Artie sets out in search of something to investigate. Shes joined by her pal Theodore, an upper-crust young bachelor whose interest in Bostons occult counterculture has drawn him into the study of magic. Together, their journey into mystery begins on Boston Commonwhere the tramps and the groundskeepers swap rumors about unearthly screams and other unsettling anomaliesbut soon Artie and Theodore uncover a series of violent abductions that take them on an adventure from the highest corridors of power to the depths of an abandoned mass transit tunnel, its excavation suspiciously never completed.
Will Theodore ever manage to pull off a successful spell? Is Artie really wearing that mens suit just for disguise or is there something more to it? And what chance do two mixed-up young people stand up against the greatest horror Boston has ever known, an ancient, deranged evil that feeds on societys most vulnerable?
Author: Jeremy P. Bushnell
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 06/06/2023
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.29h x 5.62w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9781685890322
Language: English
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