City of dragons / Kelli Stanley.
By: Stanley, Kelli.
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BookPublisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2010Edition: 1st ed.Description: ix, 338 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780312603601 (trade); 0312603606.Subject(s): Women private investigators -- California -- Fiction | San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction | Women private investigators -- Fiction | San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- Fiction | Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction | Mystery fiction | Historical fictionGenre/Form: Mystery fiction. | Historical fiction.DDC classification: 813/.6 | [Fic] Summary: Miranda Corbie, a thirty-something private investigator, witnesses as Eddie Takahashi stumbles, fatally shot, into the middle of San Francisco's celebration of the Chinese New Year in 1940, but when the police seem content to ignore his murder, Miranda begins her own investigation.
"A Thomas Dunne book."
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Miranda Corbie, a thirty-something private investigator, witnesses as Eddie Takahashi stumbles, fatally shot, into the middle of San Francisco's celebration of the Chinese New Year in 1940, but when the police seem content to ignore his murder, Miranda begins her own investigation.
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