Description The Deadly Mondaine is a novel that traces the life of central character HATTIE ROSALES, who is first presented to the reader as a more-or-less-ordinary eighty-something year old resident of Shady Rest retirement home in the fictional town of Gethsemane, Illinois.
The novel recounts several of their "jobs".
Back in the present, the elimination of the manager bring.
After attending a Tupperware party hosted by the riveting LUDMILLA, "MILLY", NETSUROV, Hattie winds up helping Milly with the Tupperware business, and being recruited by Millie to work for SID, a handler for hit personnel for the Mob.
The story then flashes back on her upbringing in the Central European neighborhood in southside Chicago where Hattie was a willing apprentice to the her mother, an accomplished seamstress, her job with one of the women\'s departments in Marshall Fields\', her romance and marriage to with Emilio Rosales, and her having to quit when pregnant.
Hattie selects the vial of heroin and a syringe, with which she plans to inject the manager.
The box contains a Glock 46 handgun, with silencer still attached, a 7 inch stiletto in a custom sheath, a rosewood handled garrote, boxes of ammunition, a collection of various poisons and a large store of cash.
As she opens the box to examine the contents, Hattie\'s former profession is revealed to the reader.
To do so in the manner in which she proposes, she has to visit her safety deposit box in Harris Bank in downtown Chicago.
Hattie feels she has no choice but to eliminate the manager.
For a variety of reasons, Hattie has ticked off the Shady Rest manager, who begins eviction proceedings against Hattie.
For reasons sufficiently pressing to Hattie, she dispatches two of the Shady Rest residents.
Hattie, at the outset, is disaffected and is particularly frustrated with her inability to get the attention of her successful fashion publication-editor daughter, INES ROSALES, in order to tell her of the source of the funds used for her education.
Description The Deadly Mondaine is a novel that traces the life of central character HATTIE ROSALES, who is first presented to the reader as a more-or-less-ordinary eighty-something year old resident of Shady Rest retirement home in the fictional town of Gethsemane, Illinois
