num_pages: 352
description: Captain Jim Agnihotri and his new bride Diana Framji return in Nev March's Peril at the Exposition  the follow up to March's award-winning Edgar finalist debut Murder in Old Bombay .1893 : Newlyweds Captain Jim Agnihotri and Diana Framji are settling into their new home in Boston Massachusetts having fled the strict social rules of British Bombay. It's a different life than what they left behind but theirs is no ordinary marriage: Jim now a detective at the Dupree Agency is teaching Diana the art of deduction hes learned from his idol Sherlock Holmes.Everyone is talking about the preparations for the World's Fair in Chicago: the grandeur the speculation the trickery. Captain Jim will experience it first-hand: he's being sent to Chicago to investigate the murder of a man named Thomas Grewe. As Jim probes the underbelly of Chicagos docks warehouses and taverns he discovers deep social unrest and some deadly ambitions.When Jim goes missing young Diana must venture to Chicago's treacherous streets to learn what happened. But who can she trust when a single misstep could mean disaster?Award-winning author Nev March mesmerized readers with her Edgar finalist debut Murder in Old Bombay . Now in Peril at the Exposition  she wields her craft against the glittering landscape of the Gilded Age with spectacular results.
language: English
title: Peril at the Exposition
publisher: Minotaur Books