In the confusion that followed, the keys to the vault’s safe-deposit boxes were lost. The ransacked offices and forgotten safe-deposit boxes remain locked in time, until young engineer Iris Latch stumbles upon them during a renovation survey. Twenty years before, amid strange staff
- Title : The Dead Key
- Author : D. M. Pulley
- Rating : 4.57 (865 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-9-17
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 470 Pages
- Asin : 1477820876
- Language : English
In the confusion that followed, the keys to the vault’s safe-deposit boxes were lost. The ransacked offices and forgotten safe-deposit boxes remain locked in time, until young engineer Iris Latch stumbles upon them during a renovation survey. Twenty years before, amid strange staff disappearances and allegations of fraud, panicked investors sold Cleveland’s largest bank in the middle of the night, locking out customers and employees, and thwarting a looming federal investigation. What begins as a welcome break from her cubicle becomes an obsession as Iris unravels the bank’s sordid past. In the years since, Cleveland’s wealthy businessmen kept the truth buried in the abandoned high-rise. 2014 Winner — Breakthrough Novel Award — Grand Prize and Mystery & Thriller Fiction WinnM. D. Pulley is a professional engineer from Shaker Heights, Ohio, who specializes in rehabbing historic structures as well as conducting forensic investigations of building failures. Pulley’s structural survey of an abandoned building in Cleveland formed the basis for The Dead Key.
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Beatrice, a 16 year-old who passes herself off as 18, lands a secretarial job at the bank just months before the bank allows the city to default on its loans and abruptly closes down without explanation. Just as Beatrice did 20 years before her, Iris quickly recognizes that there’s something not quite right at the bank and she soon learns that the building is not as empty as everyone thinks. Readers, along with the main characters, will be sucked into the secrets the bank holds and will remain guessing until the end. She is shocked to see that most offices were never emptied, and that many bank records, including personnel files, are still in the cabinets. Both women seek answers to the mysteries they uncover, while a gruesome discovery ups the stakes considerably. Fast paced, faultlessly written, and engaging, this is a page turner with a very surprising and plausible twist. . Iris, a young engineer working her first job out of the office, finds herself assigned to map out a floor plan for the bank building which has been empty for two decades. There are not enough
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