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Synopsis
"...a promising start from a new author" —Historical Novel Review.Winner of 2018 IPPY Gold Ben Franklin in Historical Fiction. Gilded Age New Orleans is overrun with prostitutes, pornographers, and a malicious Jack the Ripper copycat. As threatening letters to newspaper editors proclaim, no woman is safe from his blade.
Desperate to know who murdered her favorite student, ambitious typewriting teacher Fanny Newcomb launches into a hunt for the self-proclaimed Irish Channel Ripper.
Fanny quickly enlists the help of her well-connected employers—Principal Sylvia Giddings and her sister Dr. Olive—and together the women forge through saloons, cemeteries, slums, and houses of prostitution.
Fanny’s good intentions quickly infuriate her longtime beau Lawrence Decatur, while her reckless persistence confounds the talented police detective Daniel Crenshaw. Reluctantly, Lawrence and Daniel also lend their talents to Fanny’s investigation.
As the murderer sets a date for his next heinous crime, can Fanny Newcomb and her crew stop the Irish Channel Ripper before he kills again?Recommended for readers who enjoy the American mysteries of Lauren Willig, M. Louisa Locke, P. B. Ryan, and David Fulmer.
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About the Author
Ana Brazil writes historical crime fiction that celebrates bodacious American heroines. Her debut historical mystery FANNY NEWCOMB AND THE IRISH CHANNEL RIPPER won the IBPA 2018 Gold Medal for Historical Fiction.
Ana is a founding member of the Paper Lantern Writers Collection of historical fiction writers and blogs about historical, mystery, and writing at anabrazil.com and paperlanternwriters.com. Join her!
From the Back Cover
~Winner of the Independent Book Publishers Association 2018 GOLD for Historical Fiction~
Gilded Age New Orleans is overrun with prostitutes, pornographers, and a malicious Jack the Ripper copycat. As threatening letters to newspaper editors proclaim, no woman is safe from his blade.
Desperate to know who murdered her favorite student, ambitious typewriting teacher Fanny Newcomb launches into a hunt for the self-proclaimed Irish Channel Ripper.
Fanny quickly enlists the help of her well-connected employers--Principal Sylvia Giddings and her sister Dr. Olive--and together the women forge through saloons, cemeteries, slums, and houses of prostitution.
Fanny's good intentions quickly infuriate her longtime beau Lawrence Decatur, while her reckless persistence confounds the talented police detective Daniel Crenshaw. Reluctantly, Lawrence and Daniel also lend their talents to Fanny's investigation.
As the murderer sets a date for his next heinous crime, can Fanny Newcomb and her crew stop the Irish Channel Ripper before he kills again?
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Twenty years after the devastating Civil War, the city of New Orleans teeters on a dangerous social precipice: Will it succumb to the poisonous influence of gamblers, prostitutes, murderers, and pornographers? Or will it claim a bright future built upon the high ideals of education, culture, and political justice? Twenty-five year old Fanny Newcomb is proud to hope and work for a more enlightened New Orleans. The daughter of a recently-deceased lawyer, she yearns to be a lawyer too, but her poverty forces her to live and work in the rough Irish Channel neighborhood. There, she takes a job teaching typewriting and business classes at the grand, new Wisdom Hall settlement house. Huddled along the Mississippi River just south of Canal Street, the Irish Channel is home to the city's struggling Irish and German immigrants. While Channel men toil daily to make a living wage, many of the Channel girls and women are forced to prostitute themselves to stay alive. Very few of them have time for classes at Wisdom Hall. Wisdom Hall founder and principal Sylvia Giddings--privileged daughter of an uptown family--wants to educate and help the women of the Irish Channel escape their predictably restricted futures. But Sylvia's attempts to enlighten the tradition-bound immigrants are patently unwelcome and she struggles to find and keep her students. And Sylvia's life would be so much easier if Fanny Newcomb stopped challenging her authority Luckily, the Irish Channel neighbors appreciate the work of Sylvia's sister Olive. Recently graduated from medical school in Germany, Dr. Olive Giddings operates a state-of-the-art infirmary at the rear of Wisdom Hall. She's eager to prove that her skills are far superior to those of any male doctor's. Fanny's hopes and hard work soon collide with reality when her most promising business student is murdered in the Irish Channel. Not only murdered, but slashed and ripped to shreds, just like Jack the Ripper's London victims were months earlier. Sylvia's German carpenter is quickly arrested as a Ripper copycat, but Fanny realizes just as quickly that the carpenter is not the killer. Desperate to know what happened to her student, Fanny Newcomb launches into a hunt for the self-proclaimed Irish Channel Ripper. Fanny knows that she has the skills to identify the murderer; she just has to work hard and smart. Fortunately, she is not above spying, lying, or stealing, if it helps her secure information and know the truth.Letters from the Ripper are posted on streetlamps and published in the newspapers. Each letter promises another brutal slaughter in the Irish Channel. The women and girls of the Channel--especially the students of Wisdom Hall--cower in fear. Fanny enlists Sylvia and Olive in her quest to find the murderer, and together they identify six men who could be the Irish Channel Ripper. The women pursue each suspect through New Orleans' churches, cemeteries, hotels, and houses of prostitution. But Fanny's hunt for the Irish Channel Ripper infuriates her father's former law partner Lawrence Decatur. It's bad enough that Fanny wants to practice law and refuses to marry him, but rooting out a murderer goes against everything a proper woman should cherish Very reluctantly, Lawrence agrees to assist Fanny in her investigation.Talented Irish Channel police detective Daniel Crenshaw is both alarmed and awestruck by Fanny's persistence. After much frustration, Fanny and the detective declare a delicate truce and attempt to work together. Can this partnership make the difference?Can Fanny Newcomb stop the Irish Channel Ripper before he kills again?2018 winner of IBPA's Ben Franklin Gold Award, Historical Fiction. Seller Inventory # CIN1937818632G
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