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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When Inspector Field shows his friend Charles Dickens the body of a young woman dragged from the River Thames, he cannot have foreseen that the famous author would immediately recognize the victim as Isabella Gordon, a housemaid he had tried to help through his charity. Nor that Dickens and his fellow writer Wilkie Collins would determine to find out who killed her. Who was Isabella blackmailing, and why? Led on by fragments of a journal discovered...
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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Frank Malloy's new client, Will, wants to find his brother, Freddie. But Freddie turns up dead.
Will Bert is searching for his brother, a newsboy named Freddie, saying he wants to share his recent financial good fortune. Frank Malloy finds the boy, but when Will's name is mentioned, Freddie runs off ... and is found dead a short time later. Suspicious, Frank tracks down Will who spins a tale of lust and deceit involving a young society woman, Estelle...
Author
Series
Gaslight mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the lacerated fragments of canvas of a painting titled A Winter of Despair. On closer examination, Wilkie realizes he recognizes the victim, for he had been due to dine with him that very evening. The dead man is Edwin Milton-Hayes, one of Wilkie's brother Charley's artist friends....
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Wilkie Collins is looking forward to spending Christmas at Gads Hill, Charles Dickens' Kentish country home, but the festivities are cut short when a body is found on the snowy marshland. Timmy O'Connor was invited to the gathering with his four nephews after a chance encounter with Dickens, but is now dead. Dickens is convinced the murderer is one of the convicts from a nearby prison ship, but Collins is not so sure. Who was this mysterious and...
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 10
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Malloy takes up the unsolved murder of Dr. Brandt, but the shocking revelations he uncovers may destroy Sarah-- and Malloy's hope for any future with her.
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 15
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope's Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine's nursemaid, now acting on behalf of the girl's mother to reunite them. Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah asks Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to interview the woman at her tenement in Chelsea, he finds she has...
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 12
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After an influential man in the deaf community is murdered, Frank Malloy is assigned the case, presumably because his son attends the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Malloy suspects the murderer is tied to the school, and turns to midwife Sarah Brandt for help.
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 17
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 18
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 7
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A midwife working in the tenements of turn-of-the-last-century New York, Sarah Brandt is summoned by the wealthy Lintons to confirm their worst fear: their teenaged daughter is with child. It's a mystery, however, since the young woman--mentally still a child herself--is never left alone. With the help of her friend Detective Sergeant Malloy, Sarah vows to crack this delicate case, especially since suspicion is on those close to the Lintons. Then,...
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
As a midwife in turn-of-the-century New York, Sarah Brandt has seen pain and joy. Now she will work for something more--a search for justice--in a case of murder involving one of New York's richest families.
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 22
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
As 1899 draws to a close, Frank and Sarah Malloy are ready to celebrate the New Year--and century--at Trinity Church when they notice Mr. Pritchard, a neighbor's relative, behaving oddly and annoying the other revelers. When Frank tries to intervene and convince Pritchard to return home with them, he refuses and Frank loses him in the crowd. The next morning Sarah and Frank are horrified to learn Pritchard was murdered sometime in the night, his body...
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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"In the latest from the national bestselling author of Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue, former police sergeant Frank Malloy and his wife adjust to life in New York high society as they investigate a death in the field of higher learning ... A Gaslight Mystery After spending his first few weeks as a private detective by investigating infidelities of the wealthy, Frank has a more serious case at hand. Abigail Northrup of Tarrytown, New York, was her parents'...
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
High society member Felix Decker, who belongs to one of New York's oldest families, resigns himself to partnering up with Irish Catholic police detective Frank Malloy when a member of his private club is murdered in nineteenth-century Manhattan.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly attending two seances in order to help her mother to make peace with the death of Sarah's older sister, Sarah Brandt is shocked when one of their fellow attendees dies during a seance, a situation that forces Sarah to protect her mother from an ensuing scandal.
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 24
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a scoundrel is murdered, Sarah and Frank Malloy must find the real killer to stop a scandal that threatens to destroy a young family. The next installment in the beloved Gaslight Mystery series by national bestselling author Victoria Thompson, set in 19th century New York City"--
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 16
Publisher
Berkley Hardcover
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When facing injustice, the residents of nineteenth-century New York City's tenements turn to midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to protect their rights. Now, as the Edgar and Agatha Award-nominated series continues, the two must track down a cruel criminal preying on the hopes and dreams of innocent women A Gaslight Mystery Frank Malloy has never known any life other than that of a cop, but his newfound inheritance threatens...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When a philanthropist's involvement in the rescue of a prostitute leads to murder, Sarah Brandt's significant other, Detective Sgt. Frank Malloy, can't prevent her from investigating. Set at the end of the 19th century in New York City.
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 21
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When a murder hits close to home, Frank finds himself in an unusual position--the prime suspect in the latest installment of the national bestselling Gaslight Mystery series ... Frank and Sarah Malloy are enjoying married life and looking to make their family official by adopting Catherine, the child Sarah rescued and has been raising as her daughter. The newlyweds soon discover, Parnell Vaughn, an actor and Catherine's legal father, is looking to...