Curious toys : a novel / Elizabeth Hand.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 373 pages ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316485883
- 0316485888
- Darger, Henry, 1892-1973 -- Fiction
- Women detectives -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction
- Gangs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction
- Amusement parks -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Murderers -- Fiction
- Riverview Amusement Park (Chicago, Ill.) -- Fiction
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- 813/.54Â 23
- PS3558.A4619Â C87 2019
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Iola Public Library Adult Mystery | Iola Public Library | Adult Books | M Hand, Elizabeth (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Purchased with funds from the Mary Lou Classen Memorial. | 34311002807213 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-373).
"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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