Murder on Amsterdam Avenue: A Gaslight Mystery

Murder on Amsterdam Avenue: A Gaslight Mystery
ISBN-10
042526047X
ISBN-13
9780425260470
Category
Brandt, Sarah (Fictitious character)
Pages
306
Language
English
Published
2015
Publisher
Penguin
Author
Victoria E. Thompson

Description

In this Gaslight Mystery from the national bestselling author of Murder in Murray Hill, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy investigate foul play in the secretive high-society world of nineteenth-century New York City In the midst of Sarah and Frank s wedding preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side, where Charles Fairfax, the son of family friends, has died unexpectedly after suffering from a mysterious disease. It is a tragic and all too common story or so it seems. Charles s father asks to speak with Sarah privately. He believes his son was poisoned and would like Sarah and Frank to look into the matter with the utmost discretion. Putting their own personal affairs on hold, Sarah and Frank soon learn that not everyone wants to know more about Charles s death, particularly if he was murdered. As they unravel secrets that reach back to the War Between the States, they also discover that they are in the company of a very present danger "

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