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City of Dragons

Kelli Stanley

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#5670 of 8,085 books · #850 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2010).

February, 1940. In San Francisco's Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support for China war relief. Miranda Corbie is a 33-year-old private investigator who stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Takahashi. The Chamber of Commerce wants it covered up. The cops acquiesce. All Miranda wants is justice--whatever it costs. From Chinatown tenements, to a tattered tailor's shop in Little Osaka, to a high-class bordello draped in Southern Gothic, she shakes down the city--her city--seeking the truth.

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Publisher
Macmillan + ORM
ISBN-13
9781429968386
Topics
Murder investigationHistorical San Francisco ChinatownJustice and corruption

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