"Sister and brother Lily and Robert Brewster, raised in
the lap of luxury, may no longer have a penny to their
names, but at least they have a roof over their heads -
which is more than many can say in this bleak November of
1932. This is thanks to their eccentric great-uncle, whose
will allows them to live in his mansion on a sprawling
estate in Voorburgon-Hudson. And now there's even some
cash rolling in, since the Brewsters have taken part-time
teaching duties at the local grade school." "But their
luck turns sour when a mysterious and badly disguised
stranger comes to Grace and Favor willing to pay
generously to have a secret meeting there shortly before
the presidential election. Are they gangsters? Pretty Boy
Floyd is rumored to be somewhere near. Or worse, are they
a rabid pro-Hoover political group trying to stop
Roosevelt from being elected at the last minute by making
up some nasty gossip about him?" When one of the mystery
guests is murdered in his bath, a little boy is kidnapped,
and Chief Howard Walker can't find anywhere to house all
his suspects except the local Hospital for the Criminally
Insane, the pace becomes hectic. In the end a local woman,
a secretary from upriver whom Lily has befriended, and one
of the children at the school provide the vital clues that
allow Lily to put two and two together. But only after a
wild car chase with three women drivers.
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