Louisa and the Missing Heiress

Download or read book Louisa and the Missing Heiress written by Anna Maclean and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before she will achieve fame as the author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott is writing stories of a more dark and mysterious nature. But nothing prepares her for the role of amateur detective she assumes when the body of her dear friend, wealthy newlywed Dorothy Wortham, is found floating in Boston's harbor. It's well known that Dorothy's family didn't approve of her husband, a confirmed fortune hunter, but Louisa suspects that some deeper secret lies behind her friend's tragic murder...