Books Skulduggery Reviewed by Ealish Waddell
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o her neighbors in 1980s San Francisco, Dr. Ellen Christie is known as the bone lady. She's run across a lot of interesting historical mysteries in her work as a physical anthropologist, but she's never before had a jumpy young man show up at her door offering to show her a gym bag full of bones that might just be the long-lost skeletons of modern human's earliest ancestors. Excavated in China in the 1920s, the set of fossils belonging to Peking Man were the first evidence of this early human species ever discovered. The collection went missing during World War II and has been sought after ever since by academics, politicians and profiteers alike. Unable to resist the idea of being the one to restore this ancient treasure to science, Ellen impulsively accompanies Jimmy Lee into the dark and labyrinthine streets of Chinatown —but she's barely glimpsed the prize before shadows appear, there's a scuffle, and both bones and boy are gone.
To find them, Ellen partners with Jimmy's brother Dan to retrace the young man's movements through the colorful crush of humanity that is Chinatown. The more she learns about Jimmy's world and the people who live there, the more unsure she is about what she should do next. Ellen believes that Peking Man is more important than any of them —but when it comes down to it, will she really be able to make that choice? This classic Carolyn Hart mystery, Skulduggery is now available in the U.S. for the first time, is an engaging adventure based on the true tale of a real lost treasure. Its plot hums along, layered with an evocative sense of place and even a hint of romance. The narrative also provides some unexpected profundity in its depictions of the immigrant Chinese experience in America —glimpses into lives both bleak with despair and yearning with hope. ST
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