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The spook lights affair, Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

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The spook lights affair

Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

Carpenter and Quincannon mystery, 2

HISTORICAL MYSTERIES. A debutante s missing body, murder most foul, and weird spectral lights in the fog make for a thrilling gaslight-era tale of mystery and detection. In 1895 San Francisco young debutantes don t commit suicide at festive parties, particularly not under the eye of Sabina Carpenter. But Virginia St. Ives evidently did, leaping from a foggy parapet in a shimmer of ghostly light. The seemingly impossible disappearance of her body creates an even more serious problem for the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services. Sabina didn t want to take the case, but her partner John Quincannon insisted it would serve as entree to the city s ultra rich and powerful. That means money, and Quincannon loves the almighty dollar which is why he is hunting the bandit who robbed the Wells Fargo office of $35,000. Working their separate cases while Sabina holds John off with one light hand the detectives give readers a tour of the city the way it was