Murder on St. Mark's Place

A Gaslight Mystery #2

by Victoria Thompson

Berkley Trade

September 7, 2010

ISBN-10: 0425239721

ISBN-13: 9780425239728

Available in: Trade Size (reprint)

Murder on St. Mark's Place
by Victoria Thompson

As a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen suffering and joy, birth and death—and even murder. And the crime ridden streets of the teeming city offer little relief from either.

Thinking she has been summoned by German immigrant Agnes Otto to usher a new life into the world, Sarah Brandt is greeted by the news of an untimely death instead. It seems that Agnes’s beautiful younger sister, Gerda, had fallen into the life of a “Charity Girl.” Caught up in the false glamour of the city’s nightlife, she would trade her company — and her favors — not for money, but for lavish gifts and an evenings’ entertainment. And now she was dead; victim, no doubt, of one of her “gentlemen friends.”

No one cares much about the fate of girls like Gerda, but Sarah does. And she vows to find her killer. To do so, she turns to Sergeant Frank Malloy. As the two pursue an investigation that leads from the bright lights of Coney Island to the stately homes of Fifth Avenue, they find that their shared passion for justice may cost them dearly...



Victoria Thompson's Bio

Victoria Thompson is the Edgar-Award nominated author of the Gaslight mystery series and numerous historical novels. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.