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Summary: Conducting a dual investigation in the opium dens of Chinatown, Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon search for missing millionaires against a backdrop of a brewing Tong war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS MULMuller, Marcia
Summary: For the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, stopping extortionists is not only grand, but excitingly lucrative. When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULMuller, Marcia.
Summary: In 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, tackle two seemingly unrelated cases that are complicated by two murders and the interference of Sherlock Holmes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULSeidman, Robert J.
Summary: A tale loosely based on the life of photographer Edward Muybridge is set in late nineteenth-century San Francisco and follows the efforts of an ambitious photographer whose obsessive love for emancipated young dancer Holly Hughes is challenged by a corrupt robber baron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEITallman, Shirley.
Summary: Returning from an evening spent listening to a young Oscar Wilde in 1882 San Francisco, crusading young lawyer Sarah Woolson and her brother, Samuel, are targeted in the fog by a gunman who strikes Samuel, prompting Sarah's investigation into the shooter's identity and intended victim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALDonoghue, Emma
Summary: "Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014