Spirits and Smoke

About the author

Mary Miley grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Virginia, and worked her way through the College of William and Mary in Virginia as a costumed tour guide at Colonial Williamsburg.

As Mary Miley Theobald, she has published numerous nonfiction books and articles on history, travel and business topics. As Mary Miley, she is the author of the award-winning Roaring Twenties mystery series. The Mystic's Accomplice is the first in the brand-new 1920s Chicago-set Maddie Pastore mystery series.

Summary

December 1924. Young widow Maddie Pastore feels fortunate to be employed by well-meaning fake medium Carlotta Romany. It's not work she's proud of, but she's proud of how well she does it. But when her investigations into a new client get her mixed up with Chicago's violent gangs, she'll need all her wits about her if she's to make it out alive.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Miley, Miley Mary
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9780727850430
• ISBN: 978-0-7278-5043-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: A Mystic's Accomplice mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Historical crime novels; Chicago, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Historical mysteries, Illinois, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1919 to c 1929 (The Jazz Age), FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General