"Despite her own preparations for an imminent voyage to a blitzkrieged Britain and a painful farewell to the city she loves, Miranda decides to help [a publisher's assistant] and takes on her last case as a private detective in San Francisco--investigating her client, surveying the publishing world of 1940, and stumbling into murder with a trail that leads straight to Alcatraz, an island city of sharks"--Dust jacket flap.
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"Despite her own preparations for an imminent voyage to a blitzkrieged Britain and a painful farewell to the city she loves, Miranda decides to help [a publisher's assistant] and takes on her last case as a private detective in San Francisco--investigating her client, surveying the publishing world of 1940, and stumbling into murder with a trail that leads straight to Alcatraz, an island city of sharks"--Dust jacket flap.
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