Michael Murphy

The Yankee Club (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Michael Murphy's action-packed Prohibition-era novel of suspense, a mystery writer returns to the bright lights and dark alleys of New York City-uncovering a criminal conspiracy of terrifying proportions. In 1933, America is at a crossroads: Prohibition will soon be history, organized crime is rampant, and President Roosevelt promises to combat the Great Depression with a New Deal. In these uncertain times, former-Pinkerton-detective-turned-bestselling-author Jake Donovan is beckoned home to Manhattan. He has made good money as the creator of dashing gumshoe Blackie Doyle, but the price of success was Laura Wilson, the woman he left behind. Now a Broadway star, Laura is engaged to a millionaire banker-and waltzing into a dangerous trap. Before Jake can win Laura back, he's nearly killed-and his former partner is shot dead-after a visit to the Yankee Club, a speakeasy dive in their old Queens neighborhood. Suddenly Jake and Laura are plunged into a conspiracy that runs afoul of gangsters, sweeping from New York's private clubs to the halls of corporate power and to the White House itself. Brushing shoulders with the likes of Dashiell Hammett, Cole Porter, and Babe Ruth, Jake struggles to expose an inconspicuous organization hidden in plain sight, one determined to undermine the president and change the country forever. Praise for The Yankee Club "Glittering with a hint of Nick and Nora, Michael Murphy's 1930s Manhattan provides a witty setting for murder and mayhem."-Mary Daheim, bestselling author of The Alpine Yeoman

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780804179317
• Artikelnr.: 41219956

Autorenporträt

Michael Murphy is a full-time writer and part-time urban chicken rancher. He lives in Arizona with his wife of more than forty years and the four children they adopted this past year. He's active in several local writers' groups and conducts novel-writing workshops at bookstores and libraries. His next Jake & Laura mystery, All That Glitters, will be published by Alibi in January 2015.