I'm not sure it speaks too well for the book that my favorite parts were the descriptions of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, with its narrow twisty by-ways and hidden healing springs. Hattie Davish is an itinerant private secretary, who obtains short-term jobs using her network of upper-crust contacts. She goes to Eureka Springs to work as a secretary for Mother Trevelyan, who turns out to be a hatchet-wielding, bar-smashing temperance movement leader, and who, a day later, turns up dead. I think Loan-Wilsey did a lot of research on the temperance movement, but it didn't inspire much sympathy in her for the cause.
I agree with your assessment of this book. I normally like cozies because they are fast, easy reads with (normally) a bit of romance for the spunky heroine. This one had one too many instances of Hattie venturing out at night alone after having been assaulted and threatened, and with a murderer running loose around town.
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