City of Secrets: A Mystery A Miranda Corbie Mystery, 2 Paperback Kelli Stanley

from Judith_Starkston

Kelli Stanley has come out with the second in her Miranda Corbie mystery series set in San Francisco in the 30's and 40's-this time someone's killing Jewish women, women whose place on the edges of society makes them particularly vulnerable. No one's going to step up and bring them justice-or so ...

from Marlyn

The second of Kelli Stanley's noir series featuring private investigator Miranda Corbie begins on May 25, 1940, the opening day of the second season of the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. Miranda is called to the discovery of a murdered performer, a young model by the name ...

from MM_Jones

Disappointing. If all the repetitive references added for "color" were removed the book would be at most half the size. The constant emphasis on lighting cigarettes was annoying. A particular character might talk in short, choppy sentences, but it doesn't benefit a book to be written in that enti...

from delphimo

Sometimes, I am amazed by what I do not know, and the eugenics in the United States during the 1930's to 1950's has really shocked me. I know about the terrible treatment of the blacks in the South, but this points to the perils of being Jewish in America, while Hitler exterminates European Jews....

from Judith_Starkston

Kelli Stanley has come out with the second in her Miranda Corbie mystery series set in San Francisco in the 30's and 40's-this time someone's killing Jewish women, women whose place on the edges of society makes them particularly vulnerable. No one's going to step up and bring them justice-or so ...