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Snow White in New York

"Snow White in New York" turns Snow White into a flapper. She is living in Manhattan, and all's well until her wealthy father marries an evil lady. The evil lady enjoys scrutinizing herself--not in the mirror, but in "The New York Mirror"--but one day she discovers, on Page Six, that Snow White is now the fairest maiden of all. Enraged, the stepmother sends a thug to find Snow White; the two are to travel, not to the woods, but to "the downtown area," and an "accident" is to occur. It's here that Snow White escapes, meets seven plucky "jazz-men," becomes a chanteuse, and reboots her life. But the stepmother has one final move: She attempts to "off" Snow White with a poisoned cherry in a cosmopolitan. When someone accidentally drops SW's coffin, the poisonous cherry bit slides up out of SW's throat, and all's well once again. The apparently dead maiden comes back to life. I have loved this book for y...