The other typist /

Rindell, Suzanne.

The other typist / Suzanne Rindell. - 356 pages ; 24 cm

Working as a typist for the NYC Police Department in 1923, Rose Baker documents confessions of harrowing crimes and struggles with changing gender roles while clinging to her Victorian ideals and searching for nurturing companionship before becoming obsessed with a glamorous newcomer and her world of bobbed hair, smoking and speakeasies.

9780399161469 (hardcover) 0399161465 (hardcover) 9780399164804 (paperback) 0399164804 (paperback)

2013000995


1898 - 1951


Typists--Fiction.
Nineteen twenties--Fiction.
Women--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Police stations--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Roman.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Nineteen twenties.
Police stations.
Typists.
Women.


New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951--Fiction.
New York (State)--New York.


Suspense fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
History.

PS3618.I538 / O84 2013

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