Ebook: The Flaming Corsage
Author: Kennedy William
- Tags: Hotels--Fires and fire prevention, Married people, Murder, Murder--New York (State)--New York, Detective and mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Murder -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction, Hotels -- Fires and fire prevention -- Fiction, Married people -- Fiction, Hotels -- Fires and fire prevention, New York (State) -- New York
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
- City: London;New York (State);New York
- Language: English
- epub
In a Manhattan hotel room, the "Love Nest Killings of 1908" take place. But the mystery of who killed whom, and why, does not unravel until we explore the lives of Katrina Taylor and Edward Daugherty. He is a first-generation Irish American and a successful playwright. She is a high-born Protestant, a beautiful seductive woman with complex attitudes towards life. Their marriage is a passionate one, but a cataclysmic hotel fire changes it into something else altogether. Moving back and forth between the 1880s and 1912, The Flaming Corsage follows Katrina and Edward as other lives impact upon theirs-their socially opposed families; Edward's flirtatious actress paramour, Melissa Spencer; the physician Giles Fitzroy, and his wife; and Edward's friend, the cynical journalist Thomas Maginn. The Flaming Corsage evocatively portrays through the lens of Albany's robust Irishtown and English-Dutch aristocracy the seething, contradictory impulses of our humanity, lusts and furies that know no bounds of time or place.
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