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Synopsis
In 1862, as smallpox sweeps through Richmond, devastating the local inhabitants, Narcissa Powers, a young widow-turned-nurse, Judah Daniel, a freed slave and herbalist, and British journalist Brit Wallace begin to suspect that the plague may not be accidental and set out to stop a killer intentionally infecting people with tainted money. 12,500 first printing.
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About the Author
Ann McMillan is the author of Dead March and Angel Trumpet, the first two books in this series.
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In May 1862 the Confederate capital, Richmond, Va., faces both Yankee encroachment and the spread of slow murder from paper money tainted with smallpox, in McMillan's third well-researched historical (after Dead March and Angel Trumpet). Abetted by Judah Daniel, a former slave and herbal healer, and Brit Wallace, a jaunty English journalist, war nurse Narcissa Powers must search for answers under the eyes of plug-uglies from Baltimore, hired to maintain martial law over the city. They snoop in all levels of Richmond society from waning Cavalier families to newly rich opportunists, from freed blacks to household slaves and even, with some understandable horror, into dens of vice populated by perfumed cyprians. McMillan begins with a tour de force as one of Narcissa's patients, an amputee, dies a blistering death, but soon abandons this graphic mode for a lighter touch, bringing in rival gangs of young boys as a main focus for the mystery. The investigation loses momentum as each sleuth brings the others up to date on interviews ("Aurelia told me: Josiah Harrald was Coffin's father. Josiah was paying Cassie Terry to keep the boy. Cassie Terry called on Aurelia to ask for money. Aurelia was too shocked by the news to respond"), but fortunately rallies by the end, as McMillan confounds expectations and pulls off more than one surprise. Sure to satisfy fans of the series, with a solid handling of the era for Civil War buffs. 5-city author tour.
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- PublisherViking Adult
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0670899976
- ISBN 13 9780670899975
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages196
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