The Strange Files of Fremont Jones

Day, Dianne

ISBN 10: 0385475497 / ISBN 13: 9780385475495

Published by New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday Publishing, 1995, 1995

About this Item

Hardback, 1st edition, signed by author on title page, Near Fine in a Very Good Plus to Fine Minus, price clipped DJ; trace of light shelf wear to boards, some light wear and rubbing to DJ and DJ edges, small amount of creasing to back DJ flap, 8vo., 229 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0. Seller Inventory # 12451

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Strange Files of Fremont Jones

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday Publishing, 1995

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

Set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, whose foggy, gaslit streets still echo with the sounds of horsedrawn carriages as well as the clang of cablecar bells, The Strange Files of Fremont Jones introduces a plucky, independent heroine who might well be the natural ancestor of those modern private eyes Kinsey Millhone and Kat Colorado.
When proper Bostonian and Wellesley graduate Fremont (nee Caroline) Jones buys a train ticket to San Francisco to escape her stepmother's meddlesome matchmaking and embark on a career as an independent "type-writer," she surely knows she is headed for adventure. Well-brought-up young ladies simply didn't do that sort of thing in 1905. But she soon discovers that her new career may involve more excitement than she bargained for. Certainly she had never intended to become so personally embroiled in the lives of her clients.
First there is Justin Cameron, the dashingly handsome and somewhat feckless young lawyer, whose charm almost sweeps Fremont off her feet and lands her in mortal danger. Then there is the strangely disturbed and wildly frightened Edgar Allan Partridge, whose phantasmagoric autobiographical manuscript sends her on a mission of discovery up the California coast. And finally there is the elegant and deferential Li Wong, whose untimely death is linked to the paper Fremont typed for him, the content of which she cannot recall.
With a setting and period meticulously observed, and a feisty, feminist protagonist, The Strange Files of Fremont Jones provides entertainment and intrigue for modernists and history lovers alike.

From the Author:

this book has won an award
The Strange Files of Fremont Jones has won the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery of 1995 from Mystery Readers International.