Murder in Chinatown (Gaslight Mystery Series #9)

by Victoria Thompson

Overview

In Chinatown to deliver a baby, Sarah Brandt meets a group of women she might otherwise never have come across: Irish girls who, after alighting on Ellis Island alone, have married Chinese men in the same predicament. But with bigotry in New York from every side, their mixed-race children are often treated badly, by the Irish, the Chinese—even the police.
 
When the new mother’s half-Chinese, half-Irish, 15-year-old niece goes missing, Sarah knows that alerting the constables would prove futile. So she turns to Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy—and together they begin the search themselves. And after they find her, dead in an alley, Sarah and Malloy have ample suspects—from both sides of Canal Street.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425222058
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/03/2008
Series:	Gaslight Mystery Series , #9
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	138,079
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.75(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Victoria Thompson is the Edgar(r) Award-nominated author of the Gaslight mystery series and 20 additional historical novels. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.

Editorial Reviews

Suzanne Toren deserves a better vehicle for her talents than this predictable historical mystery set in early-twentieth-century New York City. Author Victoria Thompson has been praised for her Gaslight mysteries, which explore themes related to poverty and race relations. This installment focuses on the Irish and Chinese cultures of the period, whose members tended to intermarry because of their shared poverty. When a missing Irish-Chinese girl turns up murdered in an alley, midwife Sarah Brandt asks her detective friend, Frank Malloy, for help. While the story’s Irish and Chinese characters, suspects all, are made fully believable through Toren’s vocal skills, the development of the plot is hackneyed. D.L.G. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

OCT/NOV 08 - AudioFile