The Red Carnelian
It's Chicago, 1943. Linell Wynn, working at a department store, is hurt from her affair with Michael Montgomery. World War II is on, and good men are hard to find. Things get worse when he marries a younger employee, and then turns up dead. Everyone at Cunningham's had a motive for killing...
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It's Chicago, 1943. Linell Wynn, working at a department store, is hurt from her affair with Michael Montgomery. World War II is on, and good men are hard to find. Things get worse when he marries a younger employee, and then turns up dead. Everyone at Cunningham's had a motive for killing Michael, particularly Linell. And when another corpse appears in the store, Linell finds that a red carnelian holds the murderer's secret...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780445407848 (0445407840)
Publish date: June 1st 1989
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
I'm going to use this one for the "W" square in the Women Writer's Bingo Project. Originally published in 1969, this is a fairly early effort in Whitney's transition away from juvenile fiction into adult gothic style romance. It's set in a Chicago Department Store during the glory days of the window...
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