Murder on Waverly Place
Victoria Thompson

Victoria Thompson once again "vividly recreates the gaslit world of New York."(Publishers Weekly)

A scary séance — where talking to the dead takes on a whole new meaning — brings Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy together again...

Sarah is not completely surprised when her very proper socialite mother asks her to attend a séance. She knows that Mrs. Decker still carries great guilt over the long—ago death of Sarah's older daughter, Maggie. So — Sarah accompanies her mother, and the spiritualist does seem to contact Maggie — convincing Mrs. Decker to attend another séance.

Only this time, one of the attendees doesn't succeed in speaking to the dead — she joins them. Now, it's up to Sarah and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to protect Mrs. Decker from scandal — by determining how a woman was murdered in the pitch dark when every suspect was holding the hand of the person next to them.

The spiritualist and her manager are immediate suspects in the murder — as are a couple of young Italian immigrants. Behind the scenes at the mansion, nothing is actually the way it seems.

Frank Malloy wants them to hold another séance for his investigation — but who wants to take a chance of being next?

(A Gaslight Mystery #11)
Berkley, June 2009
ISBN #9780425227756
304 pages Hardcover
$24.95

Also by Victoria Thompson:
Murder on Fifth Avenue, May 2013
Murder in Chelsea, May 2013
Murder on Sisters' Row, May 2012
Murder on Fifth Avenue, May 2012
Murder on Lexington Avenue, June 2011
Murder on Sisters' Row, June 2011
Murder on St. Mark's Place, September 2010
Murder on Waverly Place, June 2010
Murder on Lexington Avenue, June 2010
Murder on Astor Place, September 2009
Murder on Bank Street, June 2009
Murder In Chinatown, June 2008
Murder on Bank Street, June 2008
Murder in Little Italy, June 2007
Murder In Chinatown, June 2007
Murder On Lenox Hill, June 2006
Murder in Little Italy, June 2006
Murder on Marble Row, June 2005
Murder On Lenox Hill, June 2005
Murder on Marble Row, June 2004
Murder on Mulberry Bend, March 2003
Murder on Washington Square, April 2002
Murder on Gramercy Park, March 2001
Murder on St. Mark’s Place, March 2000
Murder On Astor Place, May 1999

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