num_pages: 384
description: A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920sConfessions are Rose Bakers job. A typist for the New York City Police Department she sits in judgment like a high priestess. Criminals come before her to admit their transgressions and with a few strokes of the keys before her she seals their fate. But while she may hear about shootings knifings and crimes of passion as soon as she leaves the room she reverts to a dignified and proper lady. Until Odalie joins the typing pool.As Rose quickly falls under the stylish coquettish Odalies spell she is lured into a sparkling underworld of speakeasies and jazz. And what starts as simple fascination turns into an obsession from which she may never recover.
language: English
title: The Other Typist
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd