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The exploitation of Niagara Falls to generate electricity leads to a murder involving members of Buffalo's ruling class. The heroine is a high-society school teacher who investigates and through her eyes is seen the conflict between industrialists and environmentalists of the day. A first novel
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Industrial revolution, Fiction, Electrification, Women school principals, Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.), Social conditions, New York (State), Buffalo, City and town life, Pan-American Exposition. fast (OCoLC)fst01406910, General, FICTION, Large type books, Historical fiction, Mystery fiction, Private schools, Social life and customs, Fiction, historical, general, Buffalo (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, mystery & detective, generalPlaces
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"Island Books"
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Dial Press, 1999
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Louisa Barrett, headmistress of a prestigious girls' school in Buffalo in 1901, is a forward-looking, independent young woman. But the secret of her past - which connects her to the highest echelons of US government - continually underlines the fragility of her position in the city's society.
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