![]() Venture to Napa Valley and Beyond with Miranda The Nearness Of You Ray Eberle with Glenn Miller and his Orchestra 3:16.Blue Skies Benny Goodman and his Orchestra 3:34.Beer Barrel Polka (1939) Andrews Sisters 2:53.Lilacs In The Rain Irene Day with Gene Krupa and his Orchestra 1:59.Blue Orchids Glenn Miller and his Orchestra 2:55.Our Love Is Different Billie Holiday 3:16.We Three (My Echo My Shadow And Me) Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra 3:04.Stardust Glenn Miller and his Orchestra 3:24.In the Mood Glenn Miller and his Orchestra 3:37. ![]() All The Things You Are Jack Leonard with Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra 3:23.Imagination Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra 3:16.Everybody Loves My Baby The Boswell Sisters 2:23.Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen The Andrews Sisters 3:12.When You Wish Apon a Star Cliff Edwards 3:09.Bugle Call Rag Glenn Miller and his Orchestra 2:45.Haunted by the memory of February and a stalker on her trail, she confronts terrorist threats, gangsters, and secrets from her own past … and faces a nightmare choice of life and death, alone and in the shadows.ĭiscover 1940 San Francisco-mysteries kept and innocence lost-in a harrowing CITY OF SECRETS … Is he a member of one of the American fascist groups that support Nazi Germany? Is he the brutal animal trainer who likes to brand women? Or is it, after all, the cop who hates her-Gerald Duggan?Īs another victim joins the list-another anti-Semitic slur drawn on her body-the swirl of madness threatens to swallow Miranda herself. And Miranda’s attorney wants to hire her … to find evidence that Gerald Duggan is innocent.įrom dingy hotels in the shadow of San Francisco’s City Hall to the bright, sunny spa town of Calistoga nestled in the Napa Valley, Miranda’s follows the trail of a vicious murderer. Her enemy-the rough Irish cop who beat her and tried to set her up in February-is arrested for the crime. Set adrift from the island, Miranda has only a few days to devote to investigating Pandora’s brutal murder … until fate intervenes in the form of an official job. Seems that Miranda has a penchant for not cooperating … and for finding out the truth. When the workers who find Pandora’s body call Miranda in for help, she gets involved, and the men who run the business of fun and fairs don’t like that. ![]() Miranda Corbie-ex-escort, Spanish Civil War nurse, and now private detective in San Francisco-works for Sally Rand. And on May 25th, opening day, the stage hands find her stabbed through the breast with a souvenir ice-pick, an anti-Semitic slur scrawled across her white skin … The blonde took a job at a peep show on Treasure Island for the 1940 World’s Fair. “Kelli Stanley is such a master of noir one could swear that she’s Raymond Chandler reincarnated, and Miranda Corbie is the epitome of hardboiled.” CITY OF SECRETS is Kelli Stanley’s gift to readers who appreciate history, mystery, and truth.” “Gripping … powerful … it takes a gift to create a detective who can walk the dark streets of her own time, while frightening us with our own dark streets. She’s a hard drinking, chain smoking, spunky dame who would shoot me as soon as look at me for calling her spunky … Stanley has a distinctive writing style, conveying thoughts and ambience with poetic brush strokes.” “Miranda Corbie, the character at the heart of Kelli Stanley’s CITY OF SECRETS, combines the tropes of femme fatale and wisecracking private dick. Oline Cogdil l, South Florida Sun-Sentinel She gracefully weaves in anti-Semitism, the rise of the American Nazi party, the World’s Fair and nude models into a cohesive plot, and brings fresh storytelling to CITY OF SECRETS … an outstanding addition to what will prove to be a superb series.” “As she did in last year’s excellent CITY OF DRAGONS, Stanley richly explores San Francisco’s history, politics and culture during the pre-WWII days. ![]()
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