SMFS list member Maddie Day’s book, A Case
for the Ladies: A Dot and Amelia Mystery, was released last month. It
is available from Amazon.
Amazon Description:
Amid Prohibition, Irish
gangs, the KKK, and rampant mistreatment of immigrant women, intrepid private
investigator Dorothy Henderson and her pal Amelia Earhart seek justice for
several murdered young women in 1926 Boston. As tensions mount, the sleuths, along
with their reporter friend Jeanette and Dot’s maiden aunt Etta. experience
their own mistreatment at the hand of society and wonder who they can really
trust.
This novel brings a pre-fame Amelia Earhart to
life in 1926, when she lived in a Boston suburb and worked as a teacher and
social worker at a settlement house founded to help immigrant women. After
Amelia meets fictional lady PI Dot Henderson, and more than one young immigrant
woman is found murdered, the two put their heads together to seek justice for
the less powerful. Meanwhile, Etta Rogers, a founder of the settlement house
and a Wellesley professor, works with reporter Jeanette Colby to investigate the
Irish gangs who are not only running illicit liquor but also seeking to take
over the settlement house real estate.
