TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spotswood, Stephen,
TI  - Fortune favours the dead
SN  - 1472274814
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London, England : 
PB  - Wildfire, 
KW  - Police
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Private investigators
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Sexual minorities
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - History
KW  - 1898-1951
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - fast
N2  - New York, 1946. Lillian Pentecost is the most successful private detective in the city, but her health is failing. She hires an assistant to help with the investigative legwork. Willowjean Parker is a circus runaway. Quick-witted and street-smart, she's a jack-of-all-trades with a unique skill-set. She can pick locks blindfolded, wrestle men twice her size, and throw knives with deadly precision - all of which come in handy working for Ms P. When wealthy young widow Abigail Collins is murdered and the police are making no progress, Pentecost and Parker are hired by the family to track down the culprit. On Halloween night, there was a costume party at the Collins' mansion, where a fortune teller performed a seance which greatly disturbed Abigail
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