2024/022: Fortune Favours the Dead — Stephen Spotswood

2024/022: Fortune Favours the Dead — Stephen Spotswood

This city’s full of monsters, thieves, and assholes. And that’s just City Hall.” [loc. 3789]

First in a series of murder mysteries set in 1940s New York. Willowjean ('Will') Parker ran away to the circus as a teenager, and has accumulated a host of useful skills including lock-picking, highwire-walking and knife-throwing. The latter of these brings her to the attention of Ms Lillian Pentecost, 'the most famous woman detective in the city and possibly the country'. Ms P, as Will calls her, suffers from multiple sclerosis, and would like an assistant to aid in situations where her 'physical limitations' prove inconvenient. Will would like a roof over her head, worthwhile employment, and considerable freedom to live as she chooses.

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