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Sixteen-year-old Amanda is spending the summer with her suave and easygoing uncle John at the Dakota Apartments, opposite the green sprawl of New York’s Central Park. When John isn’t doing something mysterious with stocks and bonds, he and Amanda enjoy the very best the Roaring Twenties have to offer. However, in a single brutal night, everything changes. Suddenly, Amanda is alone, far from home, and fighting for her life in a city that has abandoned her. Fortunately, there’s one person Amanda can trust: Miss Lizzie Borden. Together they’ll manage to work out a twisted passage toward what might be survival through the narrow streets of nighttime New York.
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About Walter Satterthwait
Walter Satterthwait is an author of mysteries and historical fiction. A fan of mystery novels from a young age, he spent high school immersed in the works of Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane. While working as a bartender in New York in the late 1970s, he wrote his first book: an adventure novel, Cocaine Blues, about a drug dealer on the run from a pair of killers. After his second thriller, The Aegean Affair, Satterthwait created his best-known character, Santa Fe private detective Joshua Croft. Satterthwait wrote five Croft novels, concluding the series with 1996’s Accustomed to the Dark. In between Croft books, he wrote mysteries starring historical figures, including Miss Lizzie, a novel about Lizzie Borden, and Wilde West, a western mystery starring Oscar Wilde. New York Nocturne is his most recent novel.
About Lesa Lockford
Lesa Lockford is a professor in the department of theater and film at Bowling Green State University. She teaches courses in voice for the actor, dialects, acting, and performance studies. She is also a writer and performer. Before becoming a teacher, she was a professional actor in Great Britain where she appeared in a variety of roles in television, film, and on the stage. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.