Parlor games a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780449806715 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0449806715 (electronic audio bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (1 sound file (13 hr., 39 min., 27 sec.)) : digital. - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2013.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Leslie Carroll. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on hard copy version record. |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
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Summary:
A sweeping historical novel about a beautiful con artist whose turn-of-the-century escapades take her around the world as she's doggedly pursued by a Pinkerton Agency detective The novel opens in 1917 with our cunning protagonist, May Dugas, standing trial for extortion. As the trial unfolds, May tells her version of events. In 1887, at the tender age of eighteen, May ventures to Chicago in hopes of earning enough money to support her family...