La acaudalada familia Van Burnam regresa de un viaje al extranjero al mismo tiempo que aparece una mujer muerta en el salón de su casa. Un gran aparador ha caído sobre ella aplastando su cara, y aunque la policía sospecha que la víctima es la esposa de uno de los hijos del señor Van Burnam, éste ins
Murder on Gramercy Park
✍ Scribed by Victoria Thompson
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016;2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1440673411
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✦ Synopsis
As a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen her share of suffering and joy, birth and death. Now, she learns that crime doesn't discriminate, when the highest echelons of society are rocked by murder... A Gaslight Mystery At a summons from Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy, Sarah arrives at the elegant home of famed magnetic healer Edmund Blackwell to find his wife in labor--and the good doctor dead from an apparent suicide. Only Malloy sees what no one else wants to: that Blackwell was murdered in his own home... After a successful delivery, the Blackwell baby falls mysteriously ill. Relying on her nurse's training and woman's intuition, Sarah discovers the source of the baby's sickness--and discovers a scandal that leads Malloy's investigation down a gilded path paved with greed, deception, and desire...
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