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The white angel : a mystery
- Title
- The white angel : a mystery / John MacLachlan Gray.
- Author
- Gray, John, 1946-
- Publication
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- 296 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Vancouver is in an uproar over the death by gunshot of a Scottish nanny, Janet Stewart. An almost deliberately ham-handed police investigation has Constable Hook suspecting a cover-up. The powerful United Council of Scottish Societies is demanding an inquiry. The killing has become a political issue with an election not far away. The city is buzzing with rumours. Miss Stewart's fellow nannies have accused the Chinese houseboy of murder, capitalizing on a wave of anti-Chinese propaganda led by the Asian Exclusion League and enthusiastically supported by the sensational press--not to mention the Ku Klux Klan, which has taken up residence in upperclass Shaughnessy. The White Angel is a work of fiction inspired by the cold case of Janet Smith, who, on July 26, 1924, was found dead in her employer's posh Shaughnessy Heights mansion. A dubious investigation led to the even more dubious conclusion that Smith died by suicide. After a public outcry, the case was re-examined and it was decided that Smith was in fact murdered; but no one was ever convicted, though suspects abounded--from an infatuated Chinese houseboy to a drug-smuggling ring, devil-worshippers from the United States, or perhaps even the Prince of Wales. For Vancouver, the killing created a situation analogous to lifting a large flat rock to expose the creatures hiding underneath. An exploration of true crime through a literary lens, The White Angel draws an artful portrait of Vancouver in 1924 in all its opium-hazed, smog-choked, rain-soaked glory--accurate, insightful and darkly droll."--
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Note
- A novel.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-10392
- ISBN
- 9781771621465
- 177162146X
- OCLC
- 1003518187
- Author
- Gray, John, 1946- author.
- Title
- The white angel : a mystery / John MacLachlan Gray.
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Gray, John, 1946-, author. White angel. (CaOONL)20179027247
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-10392