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The War against Miss Winter, The Winter of Her Discontent, and Winter in June
Kathryn Miller Haines
Paperback, 317 pages; 2007
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It’s 1943 in New York City; there’s a war on, and times are hard. An aspiring actress with a penchant for pulp fiction magazines, Rosie Winter takes a filing job at Jim McCain’s detective agency strictly to pay the rent. Things are rough to begin with: She hasn’t had an audition or heard from her boyfriend fighting overseas in ages. But when McCain is murdered, the hopeful starlet becomes caught in a plot more twisted than A Comedy of Errors and Macbeth combined, and finds herself cast in the role of a reluctant sleuth. Period-perfect zingers and the colorful slang of the 1940s plunge the reader into Rosie’s world, but it’s the actors in this drama —well-meaning mobsters, suspicious society dames, and the plucky girls at the George Bernard Shaw House “for wayward actresses”—who keep the pages turning. We’re not telling anything more about The War against Miss Winter, except that Rosie does live to return for encores in The Winter of Her Discontent and Winter in June.
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