TakingTime reviewed on 1/8/2014 + 1072 more book reviews

Stella, Maria and Ritzi - all smart women. All associated with Judge Crater. Judge Crater is missing.

Stella, the proper Judges wife, cool, calm and collected. Maria, the Crater's maid, is married to the Detective investigating the judges disappearance. Ritzi, the showgirl moll works the wrong side of the law with the judge.

Disappeared, missing, set up? Where is the judge? Who knows? Who is to blame?

The author admits to taking a factual historical event and manipulating it to fit his will. Some fact, some imagination, but all of it great reading! New York in the 1930's at its best. Reminiscent of Dennis Lehane's "Live by Night".

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