In a smoky industrial city just after the First World War, labour unrest and Bolshevik agitation threaten a general strike. Lily Cardew, granddaughter of a hard old steel magnate, comes home restless from war work and is drawn to a revolutionary organiser, while Willy Cameron, a drug clerk from a small town, fights in his own quiet way to hold the city together.
A vivid novel of the Red Scare years by the queen of American mystery, here writing social drama. Download the free EPUB.