Murder on Marble Row
A Gaslight Mystery
Prime Crime
June 1, 2005
ISBN-13: 0425198707
Available in: Paperback (reprint)
When an explosion kills wealthy industrialist Gregory Van Dyke, Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt presumes that anarchists are responsible and personally asks Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to track them down. Malloy is up to the challenggebut he faces a different kind of challenge when he encounters Sarah Brandt paying a condolence call on the Van Dykes. Faced with the impossibility of ever expressing his true feelings for Sarah, Frank had vowed never to see or work with her again...
For her part, Sarah is glad to be working with Malloy again in his hunt for a dangerous killerthough they clash over his conviction that the murder was politically motivated.
Frank would like to dismiss her concerns, but whether he likes it or not he needs Sarah's help, because as she knowsand he is about to discoverthe marble facades of Fifth Avenue hide as many dark and twisted secrets as any tenement on the Lower East Side...
Victoria Thompson is the Edgar-Award nominated author of the Gaslight mystery series and numerous historical novels. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.