The Other Typist

Rose has made a good life for herself. Though she grew up an orphan, she has learned a new, useful skill for a woman alone in 1923, typing, and she has found a good job in the police department, typing up criminal confessions. Rose is proud of the moral, upright person she is.

And then a new typist arrives. Odalie is mysterious, beautiful, affluent, hypnotising, and it doesn't take long for Odalie to work her magic on naive Rose. Soon Rose and Odalie are visiting speakeasies and drinking illegal gin and living together in an expensive hotel. Rose senses something is not right, but she can't seem to help herself.

Just the right note of mystery in this little tale that took me right back into the Roaring Twenties and led me to try to repeatedly warn Rose against her new and dangerous friend.