S. L. Stoner

The Mangle (Sage Adair Historical Mysteries, #6) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this sixth book of the series, Sage's mother Mae goes undercover as a steam laundry worker alongside women working six-day weeks, ten-hour days. Exhausted and ill the women implore the laundry owners to institute nine-hour workdays.

The insertion of white slavers, arsonists, and kidnappers into the ensuing labor dispute leaves Sage facing a nearly insurmountable problem when two women disappear. Even as Sage, Mae, and their colorful associates hunt for the missing women, they continue their effort to help the laundry workers win relief.

Like the series' previous books, The Mangle is a story built around the true-life actions of ordinary people at the beginning of the twentieth century. This time the focus is on the progressive women who were tackling a number of social injustices: wage inequality, prostitution, social diseases, and poverty.

As the historical notes at story's end reveal, these women's efforts changed history-for the entire country. Their case went before the Supreme Court, creating new legal precedence, paving the way for their attorney to eventually becoming one of the country's most revered Supreme Court Justices, as well as being written about by another great Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: S. L. Stoner
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798223297147
• Artikelnr.: 68545849

Autorenporträt

Author Biography

Author Susan Stoner, writing as S.L. Stoner, is a native Oregonian who was a labor union lawyer for many years. Like that of her series hero, Sage Adair, Stoner's life has tended toward the adventurous. She's worked in skid road bars, Las Vegas casinos, free clinics, as a prisoners' advocate, psychology center videographer and federal judge's intern. Besides living in Portland, Oregon, Susan has also lived in a forest lean-to, a Sikh home in Singapore, alongside an alligator-infested Louisiana bayou, inside a sweltering Las Vegas tent, in a camper atop a '65 International pick-up truck as well as in a variety of more traditional Houston, Texas, abodes. She was a participant in Portland's original neighborhood movement and has since been involved in citizen activism, like filing and winning a lawsuit to preserve Portland's soon-to-be destroyed historical open reservoirs (one of those "win the battle, lose the war" experiences). She lives with her husband and two dogs in Southeast Portland when they are not traveling or hanging out in the great Cascade range forests. One of her passions is historical research, particularly that involving original source material. She is currently working on the tenth book in the award-winning Sage Adair Historical Mystery series as well as on the first book of a yet-to-be-named new series.