Buy low, sell high - a merchant's motto is easy to grasp. Your task is to roam the world and search of opportunities to score some profit. You start very humble, one cart, a purse of gold and silver coins is all that you have. Merchants of Kaidan is a challenging trading game fused with lots of RPG elements. *** PAY ONLY ONCE FOR THE WHOLE GAME *** - no micro-transactions, adds or any other tricks. Something locked away.Regain your riches, restore your honour and punish those who have wronged you. "He was a striking man," Warne tells us in the first chapter of Girl In Disguise, "with blue eyes like ice under his thick black eyebrows, but there was something cruel about his face. Kate's love interest, another agent, embodies the Darcy principle: If a man is impossibly handsome and flinty at the beginning of the tale, a change is gonna come before the end. He "says you're the very best agent we have." "He asks after you every time we speak," Pinkerton tells Kate. But here it is a wondrous victory, with Kate playing the incognito Abe's "sister," pushing his wheelchair. Macallister places her fictional heroine firmly at the controls of what was, in real life, a harrowing and finally risible operation by the Pinkertons (Lincoln's disguise of a tartan shawl and a mobcap came in for widespread mockery in the wake of the incident). Thanks to my upbringing, I'd had more experiences with that than most."īack in the realm of recorded history, Girl in Disguise gives us the true story of Abraham Lincoln, still president-elect, whisked into Washington disguised as a frail invalid in order to dodge an assassination plot. "To live in this world daily was to traffic in the business of leading people astray. "We were all misrepresenting ourselves to each other after all," she says at one point. She's a single woman trying to make it in the big city, a Mary Tyler Moore of times gone by. Macallister's Kate comes from hard knocks, lost one big love and had a terrible husband. In a silk gown, gloves and bonnet, she insinuates herself into situations where her male colleagues would fear to tread, in search of secessionist troublemakers and other bad actors. Some of the most successful agents in the war were women, but while most of them were on the Confederate side, Kate is Union to the bone. Kate gets better as she goes - and so does the book. Girl in Disguise, Macallister's sophomore effort, dives into case after case, convincing the reader as well as Pinkerton that Kate is an ace detective in this dangerous man's world. Warne proves herself while working a jewel theft, but must keep proving herself, over and over, to the bearded, middle-aged Allan Pinkerton and his gaudy cast of operatives. Chicago on the verge of the Civil War is the backdrop for our heroine as she answers a newspaper ad placed by the Pinkerton Agency - whose agents are the extra-legal blade runners of choice for America's wealthy, its demimonde, and its government. What Kate Warne does set herself to is fighting wrongdoers. "I hate spunk.") Warne was in real life the first woman hired by the famed Pinkerton National Detective Agency, back in 1856 - and in this historical novel, she sets herself immediately to solving the crime of what took them so long. Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, informing Mary she has "spunk," before dropping the other shoe. Kate Warne, the heroine of Greer Macallister's detective romp, Girl in Disguise, personifies the attribute (I hear an echo here of Mr. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Girl in Disguise Author Greer Macallister
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