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Murder on Nob Hill
Contributor(s): Tallman, Shirley (Author)
ISBN: 0312328567     ISBN-13: 9780312328566
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
OUR PRICE:   $20.69  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2004
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical
- Fiction | Legal
Dewey: FIC
Series: Sarah Woolson Mysteries
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.82 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Cultural Region - West Coast
- Geographic Orientation - California
- Locality - San Francisco, California
- Cultural Region - Northern California
 
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Publisher Description:

The year is 1880, the place San Francisco. Intelligent, outspoken Sarah Woolson is a young woman with a goal and the fortitude to achieve it. She has always dreamed of becoming a lawyer. The trouble is, everyone believes women belong in the home---that it is not only unnatural, but against God's will for them to seek a career.

When Sarah finagles an interview with one of the city's most prestigious law firms, no one thinks she has a prayer of being hired. Except Sarah. Using her brains and a little subterfuge, she not only manages to become the firm's newest (and only female) associate attorney, she also acquires her first client---a lovely young society matron suspected of brutally stabbing to death her wealthy but abusive husband. Sarah is sure of her client's innocence, but the revelation of the woman's secret lover may make that innocence impossible to prove.
When four more victims fall prey to the killer's knife, Sarah fears she has bitten off more than she can chew. Bucking her boorish employer and the judicial system, Sarah finds herself embroiled in shady legal maneuvers, a daring Chinatown raid, and a secret and very scandalous sex club in this irresistible blend of history, romance, and murder.


Contributor Bio(s): Tallman, Shirley: - SHIRLEY TALLMAN, the author of the Sarah Woolson mysteries, moved to San Francisco at an early age. She and her husband, Bob, live in Eugene, Oregon, where she works as a novelist and screenwriter.