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To Slip the Bonds of Earth: A Riveting Mystery Based on a True History

To Slip the Bonds of Earth: A Riveting Mystery Based on a True History

Flower, Amanda

Hardcover

Series: A Katharine Wright Mystery

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $27.00

ISBN10: 1496747666
ISBN13: 9781496747662
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Published: Mar 26 2024
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The Agatha Award-winning mystery inspired by the Wright Brothers' real-life sister!

While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive - especially when it comes to solving crimes - in this radiant historical mystery by USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower.

December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated by the gender inequality in academia and is looking for a new challenge. She never suspects it will be sleuthing...

Returning home to Dayton, Wilbur and Orville accept an invitation to a friend's party. Nervous about leaving their as-yet-unpatented flyer plans unattended, Wilbur decides to bring them to the festivities . . . where they are stolen right out from under his nose. As always, it's Katharine's job to problem solve--and in this case, crime-solve.

As she sets out to uncover the thief among their circle of friends, Katharine soon gets more than she bargained for: She finds her number one suspect dead with a letter opener lodged in his chest. It seems the patent is the least of her brothers' worries. They have a far more earthbound concern--prison. Now Katharine will have to keep her feet on the ground and put all her skills to work to make sure Wilbur and Orville are free to fly another day.

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