TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lawhon,Ariel
TI  - The wife, the maid, and the mistress
SN  - 038553762X
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Crater, Joseph Force,
KW  - Judges
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - Stella Crater, the judge's wife, is the picture of propriety. Ritzi, a leggy showgirl with Broadway aspirations, thinks moonlighting in the judge's bed is the quickest way off the chorus line. Maria Simon, the dutiful maid, has the judge to thank for her husband's recent promotion to detective in the NYPD. On a sultry summer night, as rumors circulate about the judge's involvement in wide-scale political corruption, the Honorable Joseph Crater steps into a cab and disappears without a trace. Or does he? After 39 years of necessary duplicity, Stella Crater is finally ready to reveal what she knows
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