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The Other Typist
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  • Published: 30 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241145739
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 300

The Other Typist

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30 Jan 2014
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2 Jan 2014
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14 Mar 2014
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Rules of Civility meets The Talented Mr. Ripley, as a female typist at a New York police station in the Roaring Twenties becomes obsessed with the new woman in the typing pool

'With one simple act, Odalie had snared me in a trap that consisted of equal parts temptation and shame. All this before we'd ever even shaken hands or been introduced.'

New York City, 1924: the height of Prohibition and the whole city swims in bathtub gin.

Rose Baker is an orphaned young woman working for her bread as a typist in a police precinct on the lower East Side. Every day Rose transcribes the confessions of the gangsters and murderers that pass through the precinct. While she may disapprove of the details, she prides herself on typing up the goriest of crimes without batting an eyelid.

But when the captivating Odalie begins work at the precinct Rose finds herself falling under the new typist's spell. As do her bosses, the buttoned up Lieutenant Detective and the fatherly Sergeant. As the two girls' friendship blossoms and they flit between the sparkling underworld of speakeasies by night, and their work at the precinct by day, it is not long before Rose's fascination for her new colleague turns to obsession.

But just who is the real Odalie, and how far will Rose go to find out?
  • Published: 30 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241145739
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 300
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About the author

Suzanne Rindell

Suzanne Rindell is the author of two previous novels, The Other Typist and Three-Martini Lunch. She earned her Ph.D. in literature from Rice University, and divides her time between New York and California.
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Praise for The Other Typist

A genuinely delightful, witty page turner, full of surprises

Diva

Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell's debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan . . . deliciously addictive

Kirkus Reviews

An intense psychological thriller that will appeal to fans of Notes on a Scandal

Sunday Mirror

The tension slowly rises as Rose is inextricably wrapped up in Odalie's strange world - one in which this glamorous stranger constantly reinvents her past

Daily Express

Elegant, edgy, stylish . . . I was reminded of Zoe Heller's classic Notes on a Scandal - but with dollops of Sex and the City for welcome Manhattan glamour

Sunday Independent

I was absolutely gripped, I loved it

Alex Heminsley, The Claudia Winkleman Arts Show, BBC Radio 2

A sleek story of dangerous shenanigans, bootleggers and unreliable narrators, set in the unflappable Jazz Age

Marie Claire

A mysterious central character, stunning writing and an ending that will leave you reeling makes The Other Typist the kind of book you can't get out of your head

Good Housekeeping

An unreliable narrator makes this enchanting jazz-age thriller a clever and addictive debut

Guardian

Darkly, addictively entertaining, with a plot twist Hitchcock would have been proud of

The Sunday Times