The Maid's Version

The Maid's Version
ISBN-10
144482077X
ISBN-13
9781444820775
Series
The Maid's Version
Category
Domestic fiction
Pages
200
Language
English
Published
2014
Author
Daniel Woodrell

Description

In 1929, an explosion in a Missouri dance hall killed forty-two people. Who was to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? Embittered gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it just have been a colossal accident? Alma Dunahew, whose scandalous younger sister was among the dead, believes she knows the answer - and that its roots lie in a dangerous love affair. But no one will listen to a maid from the wrong side of the tracks. It is only decades later that her grandson hears her account and unearths the truth...

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