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    The Forlorn Maggie: A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mini-Mystery
    The Forlorn Maggie: A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mini-Mystery
    The Forlorn Maggie: A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mini-Mystery
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    The Forlorn Maggie: A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mini-Mystery

    By Richard Behrens

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    Introducing Miss Lizzie Borden of Fall River, Massachusetts, a most excellent girl detective and the most remarkable young woman ever to take on the criminal underworld. Many years before her infamous arrest and trial for the murders of her father and stepmother, Lizzie Borden pursued a career as a private consulting detective as chronicled in this clever and imaginative series of short stories. Join Lizzie as she matches wits with the Forlorn Maggie in this wry tale of mystery set in a Victorian New England mill town. When Fiona Conway, the Forlorn Maggie, seeks revenge against Fleet Footed Fleet, the savage mastermind of the B.M.C. Durfee Mutiny, Lizzie Borden must summon all of her courage and confront her own dark secret. You have met Lizzie Borden before, but never like this!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Behrens
    Release dateJan 18, 2015
    ISBN9781311438386
    The Forlorn Maggie: A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mini-Mystery
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    Richard Behrens

    Richard Behrens is the co-founder of Nine Muses Books and author of the Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective series of mysteries. He is a contributor to The Hatchet: A Journal of Lizzie Borden and Victorian Studies as well as The Literary Hatchet, both available from PearTree Press. He is a regular lecturer on eccentric Victorian women and silent film comedy and often gets confused about what century he lives in. A native New Yorker, now living in New England, Richard is working on several more Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective mysteries including two novels: The Minuscule Monk (2015) and The Wilmarth Immovables (2016).

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      Nancy Drew meets Lizzie Borden. With loads and loads of self-awareness, tongue firmly in cheek. This was super cute and fun.

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    The Forlorn Maggie - Richard Behrens

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    The Forlorn Maggie

    A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective

    Mini-Mystery #2

    Richard Behrens

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    NINE MUSES BOOKS

    Copyright © 2015

    Smashwords Edition

    Published by Nine Muses Books at Smashwords

    Copyright © 2015 Richard Behrens

    All Rights Reserved

    A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mini-Mystery #2

    www.lizziebordengirldetective.com

    www.ninemusesbooks.com

    Cover illustration: Lizzie Cameo by Marc Reed

    www.marcreed.com

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    only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    This story first appeared in The Hatchet: A Journal of Lizzie Borden & Victorian Studies.

    Reprinted by permission of PearTree Press, copyright 2011 by Richard Behrens.

    Nine Muses Books

    New England, USA

    July 1874. Fall River, Massachusetts.

    1. Taking Her Fancy

    Amidst a sidewalk sea of bowler hats and frilled bonnets, frock coats and flounced bustles, two women walked from opposite directions along the main street. One came from the north, City Hall rising behind her, where the center of Fall River banking and government sustained itself within its imposing granite tower. This woman was quite young, full in the face, with light hair and a cheery little smile that curled at the edges as she soaked in the life about her. She walked with an upright and dignified posture, a lofty attitude of certainty.

    The other woman was considerably older and came from the south-west. She was gaunt and sallow, covered in a threadbare print dress and a worn bonnet; her gait was clearly more rushed and less-directed, as if she had been seized with some nervous energy that had driven her compulsively into the streets. At each step, she seemed in danger of pitching forward upon the ground. No one around her seemed to notice her condition.

    The two women, complete strangers, came together in the doorway of Hodges & Son, a fabric store near the corner of South Main and Columbia. The young girl was paying more attention to her surroundings, and so had time to avoid the imminent collision. The elderly woman stared wildly at her more-youthful counterpart as if she were looking

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