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    The Night Train
    The Night Train
    The Night Train
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    The Night Train

    By Evelyn Archer

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    From The Strange Files of Modesty Brown

    In a place that isn’t there, between Beantown and the Big Apple. In a time that never existed, somewhere after the Flappers but before the Bobby Soxers, the Night Train gallops toward the broken beating heart of the neon-lit City. And between the Outskirts and the City, between her old life and a new one, Modesty Brown rides the Night Train, en route to her new job as typist for Jack Wonderly, Peculiar Detective.

    The train is lousy with oddballs: palm-reading musicians, shape shifting low-lifes, bartenders with cryptic tattoos, and mysterious criminals behind closed doors. And in some peculiar way, they all seem to have a connection to the first file she received from Wonderly Investigations.

    Equal parts cool noir and punk rock fairy tale, The Strange Files of Modesty Brown is a Decopunk Mystery, a short novelette where Red Riding Hood wears Sam Spade’s trilby hat AND a femme fatale’s lipstick.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEvelyn Archer
    Release dateSep 14, 2018
    ISBN9780463135150
    The Night Train
    Author

    Evelyn Archer

    Evelyn Archer writes Decopunk Noir, smokes black cigarettes & tells outrageous lies. Her lipstick is red enough to stop a Barcelona Bull in its tracks.

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