The boys of Sabbath Street
Subtitle: a crime novel
By: Shelly Reuben
Publisher: Bernard Street Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780988418127
Subjects: Magicians; Fiction; Mayors; Arson; Fire investigation
Description: "When Artemus Ackerman, retired magician and mayor of Calendar, hears about the first fire on Sabbath Street, he sends his publicist, Maggie Wakeling, to the fire department to find out what caused it. Artemus, who still performs conjuring tricks for his constituents, has his heart set on turning the shabbily elegant Baldwin Theater into a museum of magic. All he has to do is convince wealthy widow Claudette Goodwin to donate the Baldwin to his beloved town. But the theater is located on Sabbath Street, where that first disastrous fire occurred. Then there is a second fire on Street--and a third. Certain Claudette will never invest money in such an incendiary location, Artemus orders Maggie to follow the trail of char, first to Fire Marshal George Copeland, then to the Boys of Sabbath Street, who had so valiantly saved occupants from two fires"--Page 4 of cover.