The Dancer Wore Opera Rose

<p><strong>Book two of the Mysterious Devices series of clockwork cozies set in the Magnificent Devices world!</strong></p><p><em>A chance meeting brings old friends ... and new enemies ...</em></p><p>Daisy Linden and her sister Frederica arrive by airship in Santa Fe capital of the Texican Territories determined to search for their missing father. But two surprises await them-the authorities' baffling refusal to help and a not-so-chance meeting with snake-oil salesman William Barnicott.</p><p>To their joy the Lindens find that their father has indeed been seen in Santa Fe. To their horror it was an assignation with a cancan dancer in the dead of night. Now the dancer is missing-and their father could be a suspect. There is nothing for it-Daisy and Freddie must find the girl before the authorities do for only she can tell them where he might be now. </p><p>But there are forces arrayed against them in Santa Fe ... men in the shadows who have bet too much on a dancer's disappearance to let two young ladies interfere and raise the stakes ...</p>