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01851aam a2200313Ma 4500 001 BDD3C04435D811E1AF3737EA6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120103010117 008 110921t20112010nyu e 000 1 eng 020 $a 0312668791 020 $a 9780312668792 035 $a (OCoLC)765533563 040 $a AU@ $b eng $c AU@ $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 22 100 1 $a Stanley, Kelli. 245 1 $a City of dragons / $c Kelli Stanley. 260 $a New York : $b Minotaur Books, $c 2011, c2010. 300 $a xi, 338 p. ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a "A Thomas Dunne book." 520 $a Mystery fiction. Set in San Francisco in 1940, Stanley's stunning first in a new series introduces a gutsy, independent heroine who isn't always likable. As the city celebrates the Chinese New Year with the Rice Bowl Party, a three-day carnival to raise money for China's war relief, PI Miranda Corbie sees Eddie Takahashi, a young Japanese numbers runner, shot dead in front of her on a crowded, fireworks-filled Chinatown street. When the police tell her to forget about Takahashi (Chalk him up to Nanking), the outraged Miranda decides to seek justice on her own. In her quest for Takahashi's killer, she encounters racism and sexism at nearly every turn. A former escort who's reinvented herself as a detective, the 33-year-old Miranda isn't taken seriously by the cops, who enjoy rehashing her past. 650 0 $a Women private investigators $z California $v Fiction. 651 0 $a San Francisco (Calif.) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Mystery fiction. $2 gsafd. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd. 941 $a 2 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230203012145.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20160202054731.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BDD3C04435D811E1AF3737EA6AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search