Shadowed by a detective : $b or, The woman in wax
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Shadowed by a Detective by Virginia Champlin is a detective novel written in the late 19th century. It centers on the glamorous and mysterious Ada Ricard, whose brazen abduction from a New York masked ball ignites a chain of jealousy, pursuit, and scandal involving her wealthy suitor Willie Saunders, the dashing Colonel Edward Forster, and rival forces of private and official policing.
The opening of Shadowed by a Detective follows Ada’s sudden kidnapping by three “Sioux” masqueraders during her ball, her secret transfer by carriage to Yorkville, a night crossing of the East River, and a rendezvous with Colonel Forster, who spirits her aboard his yacht, the Gleam. Spurned by the police chief, the frantic Saunders hires the private firm Robertson Brothers & Co. and races after the yacht in the steamer Firefly; in a foggy night near Staten Island, a collision at the harbor channel is followed by a woman’s cry and the Gleam’s abrupt departure. Soon after, laborers find a young woman’s bo
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