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Emperor Norton's Ghost (Fremont Jones, Bk 4)
Emperor Norton's Ghost - Fremont Jones, Bk 4
Author: Dianne Day
Caroline Fremont Jones revels in her return to San Francisco, where a new city rises from the ruins of the 1906 earthquake. Even more rewarding is her business partnership and rekindled love with ex-spymaster Michael Archer Kossoff. But their private investigation agency is barely off the ground when Fremont's new friend, lovely but quirky F...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780553580785
ISBN-10: 0553580787
Publication Date: 6/1999
Pages: 318
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 43 ratings
Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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batgirl avatar reviewed Emperor Norton's Ghost (Fremont Jones, Bk 4) on + 284 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This is the 4th in the series (which definitely should be read in order.) This title is my least favorite in the series so far. The middle was too long and drawn-out but the ending, when it finally came, brought things together too fast. Too many loose ends all drawn up neatly in one pretty bow without adequate attention earlier in the story. Still worth reading, especially for the addition of Wish as a regular character and Wish's mother who is a hoot. Fremont's father makes a trip West and Michael and Fremont's relation continues to evolve.
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Helpful Score: 1
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Like all good historical mysteries, Dianne Day's books about a feisty young woman from Boston named Fremont Jones who winds up solving crimes in and around San Francisco in the early 1900s are a delicate balance of odd and exotic period details and characters with motivations we can sympathize with today. The notion that Fremont's lover-partner, a Russian named Michael Kossoff, might be involved in a plot to murder the mad monk Rasputin is made more believable by his endearing habit of bringing home fresh pastries for breakfast. That Fremont's new friend Frances McFadden seems to have summoned up at a seance the spirit of that infamous 19th-century San Francisco character who crowned himself Emperor Norton I of the United States and Defender of Mexico is balanced by the bruises Fremont notices on the battered wife's arms. And descriptions of a determined San Francisco rebuilding itself after the 1905 earthquake remind us of more recent Bay Area disasters. Day writes with wit and energy, and her Fremont Jones is a totally plausible modern woman born a few decades before her time but making the most of that accident of history.
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Caroline Fremont Jones, partner in a San Francisco private investigation agency in the early 1900s, enters the metaphysical world and investigates the murders of female mediums.
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Love and mystery in San Francisco in the early 1900's. Very good read.


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