| International Standard Book Number |
9780593637944 ebook
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780593637937 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593637933 hardcover
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| Personal Name |
Benedict, Marie, author.
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| Title Statement |
A pair of aces / Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
390 pages ; 24 cm.
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| General Note |
"Reese's book club"--Cover.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law -- a prosecutor and a madam -- who team up to bring down notorious gangster Lucky Luciano, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the million-copy bestseller The Personal Librarian. Eunice Carter, assistant district attorney for the City of New York and Manhattan's first Black female prosecutor, has her sights set on the one and only Lucky Luciano, head of New York City's five largest organized crime families. Other prosecutors have tried to bring down Lucky, but they've all focused on the crime syndicate's traditional businesses-bootlegging, gambling, loan sharking, and drug dealing-or tax evasion. No one has thought to approach the mob through its hand in prostitution. Until Eunice. But she can't get Luciano alone. Polly Adler has worked long and hard to build up her high-class brothel business. Her client list is filled with well-known names, both the famous and the infamous, who all know her booze is top-notch, her music first-rate, her food exquisite, and her girls the best. But Lucky has gone too far, putting her girls in danger, and Polly finally sees the chance to end his reign once and for all. Together, Eunice and Polly fashion a case utilizing a network of women. Bridging the enormous divide between them and risking their own lives, they assemble evidence bit by bit, under the nose of the man they're trying to convict. It is this very alliance-of two women from vastly different worlds-that launches the most sensational trial New York City has ever seen"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Assistant district attorney Eunice Carter, Manhattan's first Black female prosecutor, develops a strategy to prosecute organized crime boss Charles 'Lucky' Luciano by targeting his involvement in prostitution rather than his more visible criminal enterprises. Unable to build the case alone, she forms an uneasy alliance with brothel owner Polly Adler, whose workers have been endangered by Luciano's expanding control. Drawing on a network of women from sharply different social worlds, the two gather evidence against Luciano while risking retaliation from the criminal organization. Set in New York City, the novel centers on the collaboration that leads to a landmark organized crime trial.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Carter, Eunice Hunton Fiction.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Luciano, Lucky, 1897-1962 Fiction.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Adler, Polly, 1900-1962 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Prostitution Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Organized crime Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Reese's book club.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Brothels Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American women lawyers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American public prosecutors Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
New York (N.Y.) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Legal fiction (Literature)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Murray, Victoria Christopher, author.
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