City of Dark Hearts

It is 1893 and Anna Zemeckis, a young New Yorker, goes missing in America's most dangerous city: Chicago. Home to the World's Fair, Chicago is a city of glitz and razzmatazz - a city intoxicated by its own spectacular wealth - but beneath the sophisticated facade lies a sinister underworld of pornography, prostitution and violence. It's a lethal place for the weak or vulnerable - and Anna isn't the first young woman to disappear without trace. Emily Strauss, an inexperienced but ambitious reporter from the New York World, is given a treacherous assignment: to find out what happened to Anna, and to the other missing women. Against a punishing deadline, alone in a dangerous and unfamiliar world, she faces a near-impossible task. And, she soon discovers, a powerful enemy...'Gripping and atmospheric' - "Sunday Telegraph". 'A rich historical thriller...Combines striking historical detail with a compelling mystery' - "Observer". 'Short chapters and tight plot invoke a cold dread in the reader from the very beginning' - "Daily Telegraph".

ISBN 0099502178   Pages 576 ISBN13 9780099502173 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 390 Publisher Cornerstone   Published in London Imprint Arrow Books Ltd   Height (mm) 199 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 132 Publication date 24 Apr 2008   Spine width (mm) 36 DEWEY 823.92   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

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