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Crowley's Rent
Paperback
Series: A Florian Van Rensenbrink Mystery
Publisher: Danny Boy Books
Published: Mar 21 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
CROWLEY'S RENT - A Florian Van Rensenbrink Mystery
Cairo, Illinois. 1840s.
A boarding house keeper is found dead behind a locked door.
The explanation is immediate-and widely accepted.
But not everyone believes it.
Summoned by the victim's family, Florian Van Rensenbrink arrives in Cairo, a river town where strangers pass through and truth rarely lingers. Inside the boarding house, small details begin to resist explanation, and quiet inconsistencies start to surface.
As he examines the scene, the case shifts from simple to uncertain. The town offers answers, but they come too easily-and fail to hold under scrutiny.
With limited cooperation and growing unease, Van Rensenbrink begins a methodical investigation into a crime that is more complex than it first appears.
Crowley's Rent is a slow-burn historical mystery featuring a confined setting, a precise investigation, and a layered case set along the Mississippi River.
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