Crafts and Life

New York City, 1939. A rising star at the Daily Trumpet, Elizabeth “Biz” Adams has been sent to the World’s Fair—billed as the “World of Tomorrow,” a look toward a brighter future even as the drumbeats of war grow louder—to cover a robbery. What she stumbles upon instead is a dead woman, dumped into the Aquacade’s pool with a nylon stocking wrapped around her neck.

But when Kaminsky’s efforts to expose the real killer land him in the hospital, Elizabeth is forced to continue the investigation on her own. And as she tries to narrow down the long list of suspects, she discovers a dark secret running through the Fair—a secret some would kill to protect.

Peg Cochran has done it again, a humdinger of a historical cozy that makes you think you are there!

Biz and Kaminsky have been sent to the World Fair to cover a robbery, when they arrive though the murder of a young woman who was found strangled and dumped in a pool takes precedence and they take advantage of the fact that they are the first reporters on the scene, Biz had taken a photograph of the young man being escorted out by the police, having assumed he was the robber, and it turns out he was arrested for the murder of the young woman (who it turns out was one of the workers at the DuPont section, demonstrating the new Nylon stockings).  That would be enough of a scoop but following on from that they are at a bar when they discover that the police are in the alleyway with another murdered body!

They are chasing down both stories, and wondering if there was/is a connection between them when Kaminsky ends up in hospital, Biz is determined that Kaminsky isn't going to lose his top reporter slot at the Daily Trumpet and so she continues following things up, only to end up in more danger than she ever imagined!