01667cam a2200325 i 4500 159048232 TxGeo 20140428120000.0 140217s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780345805966 trade pbk. 0345805968 trade pbk. TxGeo rda Lawhon, Ariel. The wife, the maid, and the mistress : a novel / Ariel Lawhon. First Anchor books edition. New York, NY : Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2014. 307 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Stella Crater, the judge's wife, is the picture of propriety. Ritzi, a leggy showgirl with Broadway aspirations, thinks moonlighting in the judge's bed is the quickest way off the chorus line. Maria Simon, the dutiful maid, has the judge to thank for her husband's recent promotion to detective in the NYPD. On a sultry summer night, as rumors circulate about the judge's involvement in wide-scale political corruption, the Honorable Joseph Crater steps into a cab and disappears without a trace. Or does he? After 39 years of necessary duplicity, Stella Crater is finally ready to reveal what she knows ... 20240426. Crater, Joseph Force 1889- Fiction. Judges Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. New York (N.Y) History 1898-1951 Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. QS5