02476cam a2200397 i 4500 1165543492 TxAuBib 20240306120000.0 230905s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781639105281 hbk. 163910528X hbk. (OCoLC)1372625109 TxAuBib rda Bryan, Mollie Cox, 1963-,. The lace widow : an Eliza Hamilton mystery / Mollie Ann Cox. First edition. New York : Crooked Lane, 2023. 312 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Eliza Hamilton mystery, An "New York, 1804. America's beloved Alexander Hamilton lies dead after a duel with Aaron Burr. Meanwhile, Eliza Hamilton's eighteen-year-old son, Alexander Jr., was seen fighting with a man in a tavern the night before his father's duel and quickly comes under suspicion for murder when the man turns up dead. Eliza searches for ways to clear her son's name, even as she is grieving, but as she combs through her late husband's papers, she finds evidence of a plot to steal money from the government during his tenure as secretary of state. Hamilton was accused of stealing that money, and it was a scandal that almost broke the family--but is Eliza now holding proof of Alexander's innocence? Deep in debt and despair, with eight children to support, Eliza turns to selling her handmade lace--and is drawn into a mysterious network of widow lacemakers who are intimately connected to New York's high-society families. They know their dead husbands' secrets--and soon, Eliza begins to piece together the truth. There's a dark plot connected with the duel, as one by one, witnesses to thebout are being killed. Now, Eliza must not only clear her husband's and son's names but keep herself out of the killer's sights."--Publisher marketing. 20240306. Hamilton, Eliza Fiction. Hamilton, Alexander 1757-1804 Fiction. Widows Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Dueling Fiction. Lace and lace making Fiction. New York (State) Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. fast Historical fiction. lcgft An Eliza Hamilton mystery. T3F