To Slip the Bonds of Earth

ISBN: 1496747666

Author: Flower, Amanda

Condition: New

While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive - especially when it comes to solving crimes - in USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flowers radiant new historical mystery series inspired by the real sister of the Wright Brothers.December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wrights flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, shes frustrated by the gender inequality in academia and is looking for a new challenge. She never suspects it will be sleuthingReturning home to Dayton, Wilbur and Orville accept an invitation to a friends party. Nervous about leaving their as-yet-unpatented flyer plans unattended, Wilbur decides to bring them to the festivities . . . where they are stolen right out from under his nose. As always, its Katharines job to problem solve-and in this case, crime-solve.As she sets out to uncover the thief among their circle of friends, Katharine soon gets more than she bargained for: She finds her number one suspect dead with a letter opener lodged in his chest. It seems the patent is the least of her brothers worries. They have a far more earthbound concern-prison. Now Katharine will have to keep her feet on the ground and put all her skills to work to make sure Wilbur and Orville are free to fly another day.