โ Scribed by Victoria Thompson
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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 Edgarยฎ and Agatha Awardโnominated 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 his position within his department. While trying to keep both his relationship with Sarah and his fortune under wraps, he's assigned to a new caseโfinding a missing young woman for her worried father, Henry Livingston.
It seems the girl had been responding to "lonely hearts" ads in the paper for months before she disappeared. Her father thinks that she's eloped with a deceptive stranger, but Malloy fears the worst, knowing that the grifters who place such ads often do much...
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