02195cam a2200337 i 4500 1049696365 TxAuBib 20231130120000.0 220902s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022041935 9781641294379 hardcover 164129437X hardcover (OCoLC)1343298981 TxAuBib rda Beutner, Katharine,. Killingly / Katharine Beutner. New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2023] ©2023. 347 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Illustrations on end papers. "Bertha Mellish, 'the most peculiar, quiet, reserved girl' at Mount Holyoke College, is missing. One cold November morning the junior is spotted walking through the Massachusetts woods; then, she vanishes. As a search team dredges the pond where she might have drowned, Bertha's panicked father and sister arrive at the campus desperate to find some clue as to her fate or state of mind. Bertha's best friend, Agnes, a scholarly loner studying medicine, might know the truth, but she is being unhelpfully tightlipped, inciting the suspicions of Bertha's family, her classmates, and the private investigator hired by the Mellish family doctor. As secrets from Agnes and Bertha's lives come to light, so do the competing agendas driving each person who is searching for Bertha. Where did Bertha go? Who would want to hurt her? And could she still be alive? Edmund White Award-winning author Katharine Beutner crafts a real-life unsolved mystery into an immersive, unforgettable work of literary crime fiction--a beautifully drawn historical portrait of queerness, family trauma, and the risks faced by women who dared to pursue unconventional paths at the end of the 19th century"-- Provided by publisher. 20231130. Missing Persons Fiction. Women College Students Fiction. Massachusetts Fiction. Historical Fiction. Detective and Mystery Fiction.