Curious toys : a novel
Call Number
- MYSTERY HAND (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Physical Description
373 pages ; 25 cm
Summary
"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.--
Subjects
- 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.
- Darger, Henry, 1892-1973 > Fiction.