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Hand, Elizabeth,

Curious toys a novel / - First edition. - 373 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-373).

In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell Gate ride with a young girl, and emerge alone, she knows that something horrific has occurred. The crime will lead her to the iconic outsider artist Henry Darger, a brilliant but seemingly mad man. Together, the two navigate the seedy underbelly of a changing city to uncover a murderer few even know to look for.--

ISBN: 9780316485883 0316485888

LCCN: 2019937208

Subjects--Personal Names:
Darger, Henry, 1892-1973 --Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women detectives--Illinois--Chicago--Fiction.
Gangs--Illinois--Chicago--Fiction.
Amusement parks--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Murderers--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Riverview Amusement Park (Chicago, Ill.)--Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3558.A4619 / C87 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54