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Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper, Brazil, Ana

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Type
Novel
PublishedOn
2017
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Narrative Type
Nonfiction
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Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
ISBN
9781937818630
Book Title
Fanny Newcomb : and the Irish Channel Ripper
Publisher
Sand Hill Review Press
Item Length
8.5 in
Publication Year
2017
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Ana Brazil
Genre
Fiction
Topic
General, Historical
Item Weight
16.7 Oz
Item Width
5.5 in
Number of Pages
374 Pages
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Publisher
Sand Hill Review Press
ISBN-10
1937818632
ISBN-13
9781937818630
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239904439

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Book Title
Fanny Newcomb : and the Irish Channel Ripper
Number of Pages
374 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Historical
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Author
Ana Brazil
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Synopsis
Gilded Age New Orleans is overrun with prostitutes, pornographers, and a malicious Jack the Ripper copycat. As threatening letters to newspaper editors proclaim, no woman is safe from his blade. Desperate to know who murdered her favorite student, ambitious typewriting teacher Fanny Newcomb launches into a hunt for the self-proclaimed Irish Channel Ripper. Fanny quickly enlists the help of her well-connected employers¿Principal Sylvia Giddings and her sister Dr. Olive¿and together the women forge through saloons, cemeteries, slums, and houses of prostitution. Fanny¿s good intentions quickly infuriate her longtime beau Lawrence Decatur, while her reckless persistence confounds the talented police detective Daniel Crenshaw. Reluctantly, Lawrence and Daniel also lend their talents to Fanny¿s investigation. As the murderer sets a date for his next heinous crime, can Fanny Newcomb and her crew stop the Irish Channel Ripper before he kills again?, Twenty years after the devastating Civil War, the city of New Orleans teeters on a dangerous social precipice: Will it succumb to the poisonous influence of gamblers, prostitutes, murderers, and pornographers? Or will it claim a bright future built upon the high ideals of education, culture, and political justice? Twenty-five year old Fanny Newcomb is proud to hope and work for a more enlightened New Orleans. The daughter of a recently-deceased lawyer, she yearns to be a lawyer too, but her poverty forces her to live and work in the rough Irish Channel neighborhood. There, she takes a job teaching typewriting and business classes at the grand, new Wisdom Hall settlement house. Huddled along the Mississippi River just south of Canal Street, the Irish Channel is home to the city's struggling Irish and German immigrants. While Channel men toil daily to make a living wage, many of the Channel girls and women are forced to prostitute themselves to stay alive. Very few of them have time for classes at Wisdom Hall. Wisdom Hall founder and principal Sylvia Giddings--privileged daughter of an uptown family--wants to educate and help the women of the Irish Channel escape their predictably restricted futures. But Sylvia's attempts to enlighten the tradition-bound immigrants are patently unwelcome and she struggles to find and keep her students. And Sylvia's life would be so much easier if Fanny Newcomb stopped challenging her authority Luckily, the Irish Channel neighbors appreciate the work of Sylvia's sister Olive. Recently graduated from medical school in Germany, Dr. Olive Giddings operates a state-of-the-art infirmary at the rear of Wisdom Hall. She's eager to prove that her skills are far superior to those of any male doctor's. Fanny's hopes and hard work soon collide with reality when her most promising business student is murdered in the Irish Channel. Not only murdered, but slashed and ripped to shreds, just like Jack the Ripper's London victims were months earlier. Sylvia's German carpenter is quickly arrested as a Ripper copycat, but Fanny realizes just as quickly that the carpenter is not the killer. Desperate to know what happened to her student, Fanny Newcomb launches into a hunt for the self-proclaimed Irish Channel Ripper . Fanny knows that she has the skills to identify the murderer; she just has to work hard and smart. Fortunately, she is not above spying, lying, or stealing, if it helps her secure information and know the truth. Letters from the Ripper are posted on streetlamps and published in the newspapers. Each letter promises another brutal slaughter in the Irish Channel. The women and girls of the Channel--especially the students of Wisdom Hall--cower in fear. Fanny enlists Sylvia and Olive in her quest to find the murderer, and together they identify six men who could be the Irish Channel Ripper. The women pursue each suspect through New Orleans' churches, cemeteries, hotels, and houses of prostitution. But Fanny's hunt for the Irish Channel Ripper infuriates her father's former law partner Lawrence Decatur. It's bad enough that Fanny wants to practice law and refuses to marry him, but rooting out a murderer goes against everything a proper woman should cherish Very reluctantly, Lawrence agrees to assist Fanny in her investigation. Talented Irish Channel police detective Daniel Crenshaw is both alarmed and awestruck by Fanny's persistence. After much frustration, Fanny and the detective declare a delicate truce and attempt to work together. Can this partnership make the difference? Can Fanny Newcomb stop the Irish Channel Ripper before he kills again? 2018 winner of IBPA's Ben Franklin Gold Award, Historical Fiction.

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