Tears of the Dragon launches an intelligent new cozy series set in Chicago, where the Browne family holds things together in the midst of the Depression. When Elodie Browne takes a job serving at a party given by an importer of antiques and jade, the evening is disturbed—and the mystery begins—as a dying man stumbles in raving about Ming Dao.
Publishers Weekly Baxter takes the cozy a long way from Miss Marple's small village of St. Mary Mead to crime-ridden early 1930s Chicago in this refreshing and exciting series debut. Elodie Browne, a bright and promising young writer, hears strange noises one night when the elevator door opens on the wrong floor of her office building. Later, while working for extra money as a server at a party hosted by a wealthy Chinese importer, she witnesses a shocking scene: a guard shoots dead a bloodied man waving a knife and shouting what sounds like Mingdow. These two seemingly unrelated incidents propel the spunky Elodie into the corrupt heart of mob-ruled Chicago as well as into the tangled world of Chinese politics. Realistic characters, natural dialogue, well-integrated historical detail and a surprise twist ending mark this as superior mystery fare. Agent, Gelfman Schneider. (June 1) FYI: Baxter is the pseudonym of Paula Gosling (Fair Game), who has won the CWA's Creasey Dagger and Golden Dagger awards. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Tears of the dragon. #1

Holly Baxter

United States, United States of America

1st ed., Scottsdale, AZ, Arizona, 2005

First Edition, PS, 2005

March 15, 2007

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Bookmarks:
1. (p1) Prologue
2. (p2) Chapter One
3. (p3) Chapter Two
4. (p4) Chapter Three
5. (p5) Chapter Four
6. (p6) Chapter Five
7. (p7) Chapter Six
8. (p8) Chapter Seven
9. (p9) Chapter Eight
10. (p10) Chapter Nine
11. (p11) Chapter Ten
12. (p12) Chapter Eleven
13. (p13) Chapter Twelve
14. (p14) Chapter Thirteen
15. (p15) Chapter Fourteen
16. (p16) Chapter Fifteen
17. (p17) Chapter Sixteen
18. (p18) Chapter Seventeen
19. (p19) Chapter Eighteen
20. (p20) Chapter Nineteen
21. (p21) Chapter Twenty
22. (p22) Chapter Twenty-one
23. (p23) Chapter Twenty-two
24. (p24) Chapter Twenty-three
25. (p25) Chapter Twenty-four
26. (p26) Chapter Twenty-five
27. (p27) Chapter Twenty-six
28. (p28) Author's Note

Tears of the Dragon launches a new cozy series set in Chicago where the Browne family, mother and four daughters, hold things together in the face of the Depression. Their essential niceness makes a nice contrast to the gangsters and grit so often associated with this time and place.
Elodie Browne, the family bread-winner, thinks herself lucky to have a job, so she ignores sinister noises down the hall as her elevator opens on the wrong floor of her office building one night.
Then for a lark--and extra cash--she takes a job serving at a party given by Lee Chang, an importer of antiques and jade. The evening is disturbed by a dying man who stumbles in raving about ""Ming Dao."" What's that? Elodie's curiosity is up...a mistake.

While Elodie Browne is waitressing one night at a private party to earn extra money, she is present when a security guard shoots a man who seems to be attacking the host. Intrigued by a cryptic warning the victim uttered before his death, and not trusting the annoying police officer assigned to the case, Elodie searches for the meaning of the man's last words and soon finds herself in the middle of a corrupt world involving Chinese politics, priceless jade, bootleggers, and drugs

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