White City, The

Grace HitchcockMysterious Disappearances Taint the Chicago Worlds FairStep into True Colors — a new series of Historical Stories of Romance and American Crime

While attending the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893, Winnifred Wylde believes she witnessed a woman being kidnapped. She tries to convince her father, an inspector with the Chicago police, to look into reports of mysterious disappearances around the White City. Inspector Wylde tries to dismiss her claims as exaggeration of an overactive imagination, but he eventually concedes to letting her go undercover as secretary to the man in questionif she takes her pistol for protection and JudeThorpe, a policeman, for bodyguard.

Will she be able to expose H. H. Holmess illicit activity, or will Winnifred become his next victim?

250 pages

BARBOUR PUBLISHING