Description:
When one young worker-suspected of being a spy-is murdered, and a bomb plot comes to light, Emily Cabotmust race to discover the truth behind a tangled web of family and company alliances in the factory town of Pullman.
Brief description: Frances McNamara grew up in Boston, where her father served as Police Commissioner for ten years. She has degrees from Mount Holyoke and Simmons Colleges, and recently retired from the University of Chicago. She now divides her time between Boston and Cape Cod.Author of The Emily Cabot Mysteries about a social activist in Chicago in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Frances is active in Sisters in Crime New England and MWA New England.
Review Quotes:
"Set just one year after the 1893World's Fair in Chicago, this novel still wears vestiges of Devil in the White City, in its historical richness and the fact of a mysterious murder central to its plot....It unfolds with equal portions of naïveté and sophistication--just the right mix for revisiting an historical moment made all the more poignant by our own present recession...A little romance [and] a lot of labor history are artfully combined in McNamara's third Emily Cabot tale. Creating a believable mix of historical and fictional characters...is another of the author's prime strengths as a writer...McNamara clearly knows, and loves, her setting. Perhaps most impressive is the way the young, single Miss Cabot navigates the dangers of her terrain with a sense of belonging and purpose, steadfastly pursuing her mission of helping to bring justice to those the system shuns." -- Julie Eakin, Foreword Reviews
"McNamara's suspenseful third Emily Cabot mystery (after 2009's Death at Hull House) convincingly recreates a pivotal moment in American labor history. . . Besides plausibly depicting such historical figures as Eugene Debs and Nellie Bly, McNamara throws in some surprising twists at the end. Laurie King and Rhys Bowen fans will be delighted." --Publishers Weekly
"Death at Pullman is a suspenseful re-creation of a critical moment in American social history, as seen from the viewpoint of a strong-willed, engaging fictional heroine."--readingthepast.blogspot.com