TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hand,Elizabeth
TI  - Curious toys: a novel 
SN  - 9780316485883
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
KW  - Darger, Henry,
KW  - Women detectives
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Chicago
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Gangs
KW  - Amusement parks
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Murderers
KW  - Riverview Amusement Park (Chicago, Ill.)
KW  - Chicago (Ill.)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-373)
N2  - "In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell Gate ride with a young girl, and emerge alone, she knows that something horrific has occurred. The crime will lead her to the iconic outsider artist Henry Darger, a brilliant but seemingly mad man. Together, the two navigate the seedy underbelly of a changing city to uncover a murderer few even know to look for.--
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