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Murder in a Mill Town

[a gilded age mystery]

by P.B. Ryan

260 pages · 2004

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"The lowborn Fallons haven't come to the Hewitt household for a handout, they've come for help -- the kind of help only Nell Sweeney can give. They wayward daughter, Bridget, is missing, and they don't know whether she's gone off with her brute of a boyfriend or if she's met a bad end. Now, as Nell traces Bridget's path through the dangerous backalley parts of town, she finds herself caught in a scandalous scheme of lies and money, and what she knows may just be the death of her ..."--Page 4 of cover.

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