Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets

✍ Scribed by Rosemary Simpson

• Publisher: Kensington Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 172 KB
• Edition: First Kensington hardcover edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York (N.Y.), New York (State)--New York.
• ISBN: 1496715756

✦ Synopsis

In Gilded Age New York, heiress Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter investigate crimes that take them from the slums of Five Points in lower Manhattan to the Fifth Avenue mansions of society's elite. In the late nineteenth century, women are particularly vulnerable . . .

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LET THE DEAD KEEP THEIR SECRETS

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Childbirth can be dangerous even for the wealthy. So when opera singer Claire Buchanan shows Prudence and Geoffrey a postmortem cabinet photograph of her deceased twin sister and newborn niece, they express sadness but not surprise. The popular black-bordered portraits are the era's way of coping with the devastating losses that plague every family. What makes this death different is that Claire is convinced Catherine and her child were murdered.

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Prudence's friend is haunted by a sense of her sister's lingering presence, and by the conviction that her dead twin is demanding justice. Catherine's widower, Aaron...

✦ Subjects

New York (State) -- New York