# The Paragon Hotel - Paperback

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by **Lyndsay Faye** (Author)

**A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel.**

The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of home and who saves Alice by leading her to the Paragon Hotel. But her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be an all-black hotel in a Jim Crow city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises.

As she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she understands their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers--burning crosses, electing officials, infiltrating newspapers, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice and her new Paragon "family" are searching for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the woods. To untangle the web of lies and misdeeds around her, Alice will have to answer for her own past, too.

A richly imagined novel starring two indomitable heroines, _The Paragon Hotel_ at once plumbs the darkest parts of America's past and the most redemptive facets of humanity. From international-bestselling, multi-award-nominated writer Lyndsay Faye, it's a masterwork of historical suspense.

### Author Biography

**Lyndsay Faye** is the author of five critically acclaimed books: _Jane Steele_, which was nominated for an Edgar for Best Novel; _Dust and Shadow_; _The Gods of Gotham_; also Edgar-nominated; _Seven for a Secret_; and _The Fatal Flame._ Faye, a true New Yorker in the sense she was born elsewhere, lives in New York City.

**Number of Pages:** 448

**Dimensions:** 1 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN

**Publication Date:** December 03, 2019

## Details

- **Price:** 31.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Crime, Fiction, Historical, Mystery & Detective, Price Written on Book, Thrillers

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