![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. When she hears about an unidentified body that's been pulled out of the fountain in Druid Hill Park, Maddie thinks she is about to uncover a story that will finally get her name in print. Maddie Schwartz - recently separated from her husband, working her first job as an assistant at the Baltimore Sun - wants one thing: a byline. ![]() She also evokes the condescension and obstruction Maddie encounters in pursuing her chosen calling. ![]() Lippman, a reporter for 20 years before she turned to fiction full-time, writes with authority about the varied types found at a daily newspaper in decades past. What she can't imagine is how much trouble she will cause by chasing a story that no-one wants her to tell. Lady in the Lake is a newspaper novel as well as a neo-noir thriller. It isn't hard to understand why: it's 1964 and neither the police, the public nor the papers care much when Negro women go missing. Aside from her parents and the two sons she left behind, no one seems to have noticed. Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. ![]()
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