Have your ticket punched by Frank James /
Amis, Fedora,
Have your ticket punched by Frank James / by Fedora Amis. - Large print edition. - 455 pages ; 23 cm. - - A Jemmy McBustle mystery ; 2 Thorndike Press large print Western . - Thorndike Press large print Western series. .
Regular print edition published in 2019.
"After the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James earned fame as the most notorious robbers of banks and trains who ever lived. Jesse died in 1882. Frank went straight. November of 1898 found him punching tickets in a St. Louis theatre. Against this backdrop, journalist Jemima "Jemmy" McBustle investigates the death of a handsome athletic fellow. She chases leads through the boxing clubs and illegal bouts of 1898 St. Louis. Clues lure her across the city on a frantic chase from theatre to department store to the city jail to the grand Jewish fair. She even explores the seedy world of patent medicine makers who flourished in the years before the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 clamped down on the opiate trade."--Publisher description.
9781432851958 1432851950
2019048369
Women journalists--Fiction.
Theaters--Missouri--Saint Louis--Fiction.
Boxers (Sports)--Crimes against--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Drug abuse and crime--Fiction.
Saint Louis (Mo.)--History--19th century--Fiction.
Large type books.
Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Western fiction.
Have your ticket punched by Frank James / by Fedora Amis. - Large print edition. - 455 pages ; 23 cm. - - A Jemmy McBustle mystery ; 2 Thorndike Press large print Western . - Thorndike Press large print Western series. .
Regular print edition published in 2019.
"After the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James earned fame as the most notorious robbers of banks and trains who ever lived. Jesse died in 1882. Frank went straight. November of 1898 found him punching tickets in a St. Louis theatre. Against this backdrop, journalist Jemima "Jemmy" McBustle investigates the death of a handsome athletic fellow. She chases leads through the boxing clubs and illegal bouts of 1898 St. Louis. Clues lure her across the city on a frantic chase from theatre to department store to the city jail to the grand Jewish fair. She even explores the seedy world of patent medicine makers who flourished in the years before the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 clamped down on the opiate trade."--Publisher description.
9781432851958 1432851950
2019048369
Women journalists--Fiction.
Theaters--Missouri--Saint Louis--Fiction.
Boxers (Sports)--Crimes against--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Drug abuse and crime--Fiction.
Saint Louis (Mo.)--History--19th century--Fiction.
Large type books.
Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Western fiction.