Bobby Lee Claremont and the criminal element

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It s 1923, and thirteen-year-old Bobby Lee Claremont is leaving the Sisters of Charitable Mercy orphanage in New Orleans, certain a better life awaits in Chicago s glamorous-sounding mob scene. But his plans unravel when he boards his train and meets the recently widowed Nanette O Halloran, her two traveling companions, and a cop who suspects the trio of murdering Nanette s husband. Bobby Lee is sure Nanette s innocent. But what about her companions?

subjects: Missing persons,  Juvenile fiction,  Criminals,  Railroad trains,  Orphans,  Criminals -- Juvenile fiction,  Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction,  Orphans -- Juvenile fiction,  Railroad trains -- Juvenile fiction,  Children's fiction,  Railroads, fiction,  Runaways, fiction,  Orphans, fiction,  Criminals, fiction,  Mystery and detective stories