Murder In Chinatown
A Gaslight Mystery #9
Berkley Pub Group
Mystery, Mystery: Historical
June 5, 2007
ISBN-13: 0425215318
Available in: Hardcover
The ninth in the Edgar® Award-nominated series featuring midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Malloy in turn-of-the-century New York City.
Sarah Brandt has made her uneasy way to Chinatown to deliver a baby. There she meets a group of Irish women who, completely alone at Ellis Island, married Chinese men in the same predicament. But even as a new century dawns, New Yorkers still cling to their own kind, scorning children of mixed races.
When the new mother's half-Chinese, half-Irish niece goes missing, Sarah knows that alerting the police will accomplish nothing, and seeks the one person she can turn toDetective Sergeant Malloy.
And when the missing girl is found dead in a Chinatown alley, Sarah and Malloy have ample suspects in her murderfrom both sides of Canal Street.
Victoria Thompson is the Edgar-Award nominated author of the Gaslight mystery series and numerous historical novels. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.