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Cargando... The Russian Hill Murders: A Sarah Woolson Mystery (Sarah Woolson Mysteries) (edición 2005)por Shirley Tallman
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Sarah Woolson does not want an innocent man to hang, but it takes great lengths to prove he didn't do it. She has to overcome a lot of prejudice, both as herself being a female lawyer and her client as Chinaman. Shirley Tallman has a lot of skill to bring you into the world of San Francisco in the 1880's. ( ) The WLV library used book store recently had a sale where you could fill up a shopping bag w as many books as you could squeeze in for $3.00! That's where this book came from; I don't know anything about it, just filling up the sack :). I got abt 15 books for $3, so if this turns out to be a loser no harm done. This series, set in 1890's San Francisco, rivets my attention. I like the way that Tallman incorporates history of San Francisco into the story line. The series is about a female attorney, which is very unusual during this period. During the time in San Francisco, only one female had actually passed the bar and started practicing law. Sarah Woolson received her first trial in the case of a Chinese cook accused of murdering 2 people. Tallman shows all the prejudice among the white, male jury and courtroom when Sarah, a woman, tries to defend Chin, the Chinese cook. Tallman also goes on her soapbox about the sweatshops that are secretly owned and used to exploit the poor. I enjoy Tallman for the journey into San Francisco of yesterday and the glimpse of the changing times that machinery brings. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Plucky young attorney Sarah Woolson flouts proper Victorian notions of feminine behavior in this nineteenth-century answer to Legally Blonde. Though her own law firm barely tolerates her, and her mother begs her to settle down, Sarah sets out to prove herself in her first criminal trial. When a woman whose husband has died in a sweatshop fire asks for Sarah's help in finding the culprit, she insists on taking the case against her boss' wishes. Even more scandalously, when several people affiliated with a charity hospital die within a few days of each other, Sarah puts herself in the middle of the puzzle, racing against time to find the killer and defending a Chinese man accused of murder. Imagine, a woman lawyer in court! No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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