01663cam a2200277 i 4500 194052065 TxAuBib 20141219120000.0 140804s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014030608 9780345548467 hardcover : acid-free paper $18.00 0345548469 hardcover : acid-free paper $18.00 TxAuBib rda Perry, Anne. A New York Christmas : a novel / Anne Perry. First edition. New York : Ballantine Books, [2014] 164 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "December, 1904. Jemima Pitt, now twenty-two, agrees to act as a "suitable companion" to her friend Delphinia, who is traveling to New York to be married to Brent Albright, toast of New York high society. Jemima is excited about the prospect of a Christmas adventure in a strange big city, but little does she expect to be enlisted on a top secret mission by Brent's brother Harley, to track down Delphinia's estranged mother. After some detective work and a little luck, they manage to locate her lodgings--but to their horror, they find Maria dead. Truly her parents' daughter, Jemima is determined to unmask the killer, and enlists the aid of handsome young police officer Patrick Flannery to do it. And along the way she comes to learn an important lesson about staying true to oneself, no matter the cost."-- Provided by publisher. 20141219. Women detectives Fiction. Christmas stories.