Styx & Stone: An Ellie Stone Mystery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781616148195)

Ellie Stone is a professed modern girl in 1960s' New York City, playing by her own rules and breaking boundaries while searching for a killer among the renowned scholars in Columbia University's Italian Department. "If you were a man, you'd make a good detective." Ellie Stone is sure that Sgt. McKeever meant that as a compliment, but that identity-a girl wanting to do a man's job-has throttled her for too long. It's 1960, and Ellie doesn't want to blaze any trails for women; she just wants to be a reporter, one who doesn't need to swat hands off her behind at every turn. Adrift in her career, Ellie is back in New York City after receiving news that her estranged father, a renowned Dante scholar and distinguished professor, is near death after a savage bludgeoning in his home. The police suspect a routine burglary, but Ellie has her doubts. When a second attempt is made on her father's life, in the form of an "accident" in the hospital's ICU, Ellie's suspicions are confirmed. Then another professor turns up dead, and Ellie's investigation turns to her father's university colleagues, their ambitions, jealousies, and secret lives. Ellie embarks on a thorny journey of discovery and reconciliation, as she pursues an investigation that offers her both a chance at redemption in her father's eyes, and the risk of losing him forever.

Author: James W. Ziskin
ISBN-10: 1616148195
ISBN-13: 9781616148195
Publisher: Seventh Street Books
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2013
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.53w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/05/2013
Library Journal 09/01/2013 pg. 92
Romantic Times 11/01/2013 pg. 63 - Very Good