The girl is murder

By Kathryn Miller Haines

Subjects: Missing persons, fiction, Fiction, general, Fathers and daughters, Private investigators, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Interpersonal relations, Missing persons, Social classes, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, New york (n.y.), fiction, Private investigators

Description: In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.