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St. Martin's Press Minotaur
September 2013
On Sale: September 17, 2013
Featuring: Leah; Oliver Beckett
ISBN: 1250028167
EAN: 9781250028167
Kindle: B00CQY9EJG
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Thriller | Mystery
A struggling young vaudeville performer who is persuaded to
impersonate a missing heiress gets caught up in a scam that
thrusts her deep into the Roaring Twenties' world of
gangsters, bootleggers, and murder.
In 1917, Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and sole heiress to
her family's vast fortune, disappeared without a trace. Now,
years later, her uncle Oliver Beckett thinks he's found her:
a young actress in a vaudeville playhouse is a dead ringer
for his missing niece. But when Oliver confronts the girl,
he learns he's wrong. Orphaned young, Leah's been acting
since she was a toddler.
Oliver, never one to miss an opportunity, makes a
proposition—with his coaching, Leah can impersonate
Jessie, claim the fortune, and split it with him. The role
of a lifetime, he says. A one–way ticket to Sing Sing,
she hears. But when she's let go from her job, Oliver's
offer looks a lot more appealing. Leah agrees to the con,
but secretly promises herself to try and find out what
happened to the real Jessie. There's only one problem:
Leah's act won't fool the one person who knows the truth
about Jessie's disappearance.
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