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Author Chase-Riboud, Barbara, author.

Title The great Mrs. Elias : a novel / Barbara Chase-Riboud.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F CHASE-RIBOUD, B.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION CHASE-RIBOUD    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  F CHASE-RIBOUD, B.    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC CHASE- RIBOUD    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION CHASE-RIBOUD    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION CHASE-RIBOUD    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  MYSTERY CHASE-RIBOUD, BARBARA    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  FIC CHASE-RIBOUD    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F CHASERIB    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FIC CHAS    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 399 pages ; 24 cm
Note "Based on a true story."
Summary "A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias' glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park West. This is the beginning of an odyssey that moves back and forth in time and reveals the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she built, and her precipitous fall. Born in Philadelphia in the late 1800s, Hannah Elias has done things she's not proud of to survive. Shedding her past, Hannah slips on a new identity before relocating to New York City to become as rich as a robber baron. Hannah quietly invests in the stock market, growing her fortune with the help of businessmen. As the money pours in, Hannah hides her millions across 29 banks. Finally attaining the life she's always dreamed, she buys a mansion on the Upper West Side and decorates it in gold and first-rate décor, inspired by her idol Cleopatra. The unsolved murder turns Hannah's world upside-down and threatens to destroy everything she's built. When the truth of her identity is uncovered, thousands of protestors gather in front of her stately home. Hounded by the salacious press, the very private Mrs. Elias finds herself alone, ensnared in a scandalous trial, and accused of stealing her fortune from whites. Packed with glamour, suspense, and drama, populated with real-life luminaries from the period, The Great Mrs. Elias brings a fascinating woman and the age she embodied to glorious, tragic life"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Elias, Hannah -- Fiction.
African American women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Rich people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.
FICTION / African American & Black / Historical
FICTION / Biographical
FICTION / Historical / General
African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
Murder. (OCoLC)fst01029781
Rich people. (OCoLC)fst01097537
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Chronological Term 1898-1951
Genre/Form Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726537
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780063019904 (hardcover)
0063019906 (hardcover)
9780063020016 (trade paperback)
0063020017 (trade paperback)
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