Bad enough Reiker's drawn into the Hotel of Horror, but what's with the unwanted company? This woman doesn't take no for an answer. Discover the dread secrets of a derelict hotel spa, wrought in the name of science.
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Hotel of Horror is the second of three novellas in the Reiker For Hire Victorian detective murder mystery trilogy. Get them singly or as an anthology.
Reiker first appears in the Lora Ley Fantasy Fiction series as the only human who knows about the river spirits, or Nyx. Now he's in the world of mortal crime pursuing villains and battling adversity as Mittelstadt's first private detective, and gets the job done.
But wait! Suddenly, there's a new detective in town, and she's ready to muscle in.
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Things go from bad to worse. As Reiker tries to solve the case of an eccentric missing genius and save a terrified girl from a crazed killer, he finds himself in an unwilling partnership with the woman detective from Canada.
In the industrial and political climate of 1896 Germany. advances in technology, law, communication and medicine begin to redefine the role of women. The invention of the bicycle gives women more freedom than ever before.
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Although women can't vote in Germany until 1918, the late Victorian era brings a sense of awareness and action. Women take public interest in politics, science, medicine and law. Activist Anita Augspurg and her partner wear men's clothes and live openly as lesbians.
Natural health booms. Mountaineering, home fitness, mineral spas and resorts come into vogue. A prime hot spot for sulfur springs and health retreats is the fashionable town of Baden-Baden in southwest Germany.
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Here Reiker investigates the secrets of a derelict hotel. Meanwhile, April wants to prove anything he can do, she can do better. Tensions mount between them as Reiker finds his old comfortable ideas challenged at exactly the wrong time.
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Cult of the Fire God - Bronze Age Adventure
Lora Ley Fantasy Fiction - German Mythology Adventures
Reiker For Hire - Victorian Detective Murder Mysteries