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53. Death in Laquer Red by Jean Dams

Mon Oct 17, 2022, 09:47 PM

Oct 2022

The story takes place in South Bend, Indiana, in 1900. A Swedish Immigrant who works as a servant at the Studebaker mansion, Tippecanoe, stumbles upon a murdered woman, a missionary, who just came back from China after missionaries and converts were attacked by the Boxers.

The immigrant, Hilda, is afraid that the police will find a foreigner, preferable a Chinese person and would pin the murder on him and she it determined to prevent it, with her limited abilities.

Interesting that South Bend had the Upstairs Downstairs hierarchy and, apparently, the Studebakers did live there and the Tippecanoe mansion still stands there.

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