The Other Typist
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780241963746 (0241963745)
Publish date: January 2nd 2014
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 354
Edition language: English
This intriguing story captures the tone of New York City in 1924 and has a great premise: Rose Baker, a young female stenographer works in a Manhattan police office, taking the confessions of witnesses and criminals. The arrival of glamourous and independent Odalie, 'the other typist' adds flavour t...
Bravo por la ambientación. Memorias a lo Gran Gatsby. The roaring twenties, el alcohol prohibido...Epocas de flapper girls (Hola, Margaret Mitchell! Siempre tan hermosa, ¿no?...speakeasies......bootleggers.......y la crisis económica fatal acechando, obvio. Historia y decadencia narradas por una s...
Author Suzanne Rindell crafts an enticing, easy to devour story of deception and sin in her debut novel The Other Typist. This is the kind of book you can (and I certainly did) finish in a single weekend, a pleasurable story full of suspense and scandal. Set in the 1920’s, Rindell’s prose rings with...
If The Great Gatsby and speakeasies speak to you here is a book for you. As a debut novel by Suzanne Rindell I hope there will be more to read by her in the future. It's New York City in the 1920's, we first we learn about Rose who is plain and mousy. Dull clothes and a lackluster personality her...
This was quite a fun read for me. Set at a police precinct in 1920s New York, it's a mystery about how the bob-haired, modern, extravagant new typist Odalie captivated her plain, straitlaced co-worker Rose. A hefty dose of foreshadowing by a narrator with questionable reliability leads to a deliciou...
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