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Curious toys : a novel Cover Image Book Book

Curious toys : a novel

Hand, Elizabeth (author.).

Summary: In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell Gate ride with a young girl, and emerge alone, she knows that something horrific has occurred. The crime will lead her to the iconic outsider artist Henry Darger, a brilliant but seemingly mad man. Together, the two navigate the seedy underbelly of a changing city to uncover a murderer few even know to look for.

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  • ISBN: 9780316485883
  • ISBN: 0316485888
  • Physical Description: 373 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-373).

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Subject: Darger, Henry -- 1892-1973 -- Fiction
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Artists -- Fiction
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Amusement parks -- Fiction
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Child molesters -- Fiction
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Salt Spring Island Public Library.

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