The Flaming Corsage

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-10-24 Pages: 272 Language: English Publisher: Simon & Schuster In a Manhattan hotel room. the Love Nest Killings of 1908 take place But the mystery of who killed whom. and why. does not unravel. until we explore the lives of Katrina Taylor and Edward Daugherty. He is a first-generation Irish American and a successful playwright. She is a high-born Protestant. a beautiful seductive woman with complex attitudes towards life. Their marriage is a passionate one. but a cataclysmic hotel fire changes it into something else altogether Moving back and forth between the 1880s and 1912. The Flaming Corsage follows Katrina and Edward as other lives impact upon theirs-their socially opposed families;. Edwards flirtatious actress paramour. Melissa Spencer; the physician Giles Fitzroy. and his wife;. and Edwards friend. the cynical journalist Thomas Maginn The Fl...