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Cafe Europa: An Edna Ferber Mystery
Ed Ifkovic
Poisoned Pen Press
May 2015
On Sale: May 5, 2015
278 pages
ISBN: 1464200483
EAN: 9781464200489
Kindle: B00V5GRMMC
Hardcover / e-Book
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In 1914, as rumors of war float across Europe, Edna Ferber travels to Budapest
with Winifred Moss, a famous London suffragette, to visit the homeland of her
dead father and to see the sights. Author Edna is fascinated by ancient
Emperor Franz Joseph and by the faltering Austro-Hungarian Empire, its
pomp and circumstance so removed from the daily life of the people she
meets. Sitting daily in the Café Europa at her hotel, she listens to unfettered
Hearst reporter Harold Gibbon as he predicts the coming war and the end of
feudalistic life in Europe while patrons chatter. Then a shocking murder in a midnight garden changes everything.
Headstrong Cassandra Blaine is supposed to marry into the Austrian nobility
in one of those arranged matches like Consuela Vanderbilt’s still popular
with wealthy American parents eager for titles and impoverished European
nobility who have them to offer. But Cassandra is murdered, and her former
lover, the dashing Hungarian Endre Molnár, is the prime suspect. Taken with
the young man and convinced of his innocence, Edna begins investigating
with the help of Winifred and two avant-garde Hungarian artists. Meanwhile
possible war with Serbia is the topic of the day as Archduke Franz Ferdinand
prepares to head to Sarajevo. While the world braces for disaster, Edna uncovers the truth?and it scares her.
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