The Pearl of Ruby City: A Mystery by Jana Harris

March 17, 2017 adminAlternative History

By Jana Harris

The yr is 1893, and Pearl Ryan, a tender lady with a checkered previous, arrives in Ruby urban, a silver mining city packed with scoundrels—one to which no good lady may ever go back and forth. Pearl units up store because the city laundress, yet is obviously no traditional charwoman: She is courted via many and the neighborhood general practitioner usually solicits her guidance as his nurse. Pearl’s dream is to wait scientific school—not a small feat for a lady by myself within the Wild West—and hopes that the proceeds from her newly inherited mining claim
pays for her education.

in the meantime, laundry is her bread and butter. As laundress, in spite of the fact that, Pearl is aware about many secrets and techniques she’d really now not recognize. As a pupil of the therapeutic arts, she acknowledges the indications of poisoning while she sees them. And as a lady with a earlier she’d relatively preserve hidden, she needs to remedy the murders plaguing Ruby urban sooner than US marshals arrive.

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