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Ruth Miller’s tragic fall from the seventh floor of a New York City boarding house leaves everyone convinced of a suicide. But a young department‑store clerk’s customer thinks otherwise and engages detective Mark East to probe the mysterious circumstances. Hope House, a home for working girls on the city’s edge, becomes a shadowed refuge where the sudden death of one lodger sparks paranoia and leads to another violent loss. As tensions rise, East’s investigation finds an unexpected ally in two spinsters, Beulah Pond and Bessy Petty, whose amateur sleuthing injects a comic counterbalance to the suspenseful whodunit.
First publish date: 1987
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Hilda Lawrence
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