Murder in Chinatown

a gaslight mystery

305 pages

English language

Published Feb. 13, 2007 by Berkley Prime Crime.

ISBN:
978-0-425-21531-9
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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 to-Detective Sergeant Malloy.And when the missing girl is found dead in a Chinatown alley, Sarah and Malloy have ample suspects in her murder-from both sides of Canal Street.

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Subjects

  • Brandt, Sarah (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Women detectives -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
  • Malloy, Frank (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
  • Midwives -- Fiction
  • Racially mixed children -- Fiction
  • Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction