Victoria E. Thompson

"New York, 1917. Elizabeth Miles makes a dangerous enemy when she cons a brutal and greedy entrepreneur out of a great deal of money. With his thugs hot on her trail, Elizabeth seizes the moment to blend in with a group of privileged women campaigning for women's' suffrage and an unlikely bond is formed"-- "--

City of Lies

Frank Malloy and Sarah Brandt investigate the death of a newsboy named Freddie after his brother Will Bert spins a tale of deceit involving a recently deceased young society woman.

Murder in the Bowery

In a novel set in turnofthecentury New York, a midwife and a cop investigate the murder of a charity girl, who traded her favors for trinkets and ended up killed by one of her clients. Original.

Murder on St. Mark's Place

On her way into Chinatown to deliver a baby, midwife-turned-sleuth Sarah Brandt encounters a group of Irish women, without family at Ellis Island, who had married Chinese men in the same predicament, and finds herself joining Detective Sergeant Malloy on a search for the new mother's half-Irish, half-Chinese niece.

A Gaslight Mystery

Murder in Chinatown

Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy and Victorian midwife Sarah Brandt join forces to find a young woman who goes missing after responding to “lonely hearts” ads in the newspaper in the latest addition to the mystery series following Murder in Chelsea.

Murder in Murray Hill

Widowed midwife Sarah Brandt teams up with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to investigate the murder of her late husband, Dr. Tom Brandt, but what they discover could destroy Sarah, as well as Malloy's hopes for building a new future with her.

Murder on Bank Street

While attending to a patient in a boardinghouse, midwife Sarah Brandt discovers the body of a girl from one of the most prominent families in New York, and investigates despite the family's refusal for fear of a scandal. Reprint.

Murder on Astor Place

When a family friend's traumatized daughter is accused of murdering her new husband, newlyweds Sarah Brandt and Detective Frank Malloy investigate with the assistance of household members and uncover sinister truths about the victim's true identity.

Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue

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?

Murder on Amsterdam Avenue

Sarah Brandt's wealthy father, Felix Decker, who belongs to one of New York's oldest families, reluctantly partners up with Irish Catholic police detective Frank Malloy when a member of his private club is murdered.

Murder on Fifth Avenue

Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities The period 1800–1920 was one in which work processes were dramatically transformed by mechanization, factory system, the abolition of the guilds, the integration of national markets and expansion into overseas colonies. While some continued to work in trades that were similar to those of their parents and grandparents, increasing numbers of workers found their workplace and work processes changed, often in ways that were beyond their control. Workers employed a variety of means to protest these changes, from machine-breaking to strikes to migration. This period saw the rise of the labor union and the working-class political party. It was also a time during which ideas about work changed dramatically. Work came to be seen as a source of pride, progress and even liberation, and workers garnered increased interest from writers and artists. This volume explores the multi-faceted experience of workers during the Age of Empire. A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period with essays on economies, representations of work, workplaces, work cultures, technology, mobility, society, politics and leisure.

A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Empire

Murder on Gramercy Park

Sarah Brandt and Sergeant Frank Malloy investigate the murder of a charitable lady of means who rescued a prostitute and her newborn.

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