Murder on St. Mark's Place
Victoria Thompson

As a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen suffering and joy, birth and death—and even murder. And the crime ridden streets of the teeming city offer little relief from either.

Thinking she has been summoned by German immigrant Agnes Otto to usher a new life into the world, Sarah Brandt is greeted by the news of an untimely death instead. It seems that Agnes’s beautiful younger sister, Gerda, had fallen into the life of a “Charity Girl.” Caught up in the false glamour of the city’s nightlife, she would trade her company — and her favors — not for money, but for lavish gifts and an evenings’ entertainment. And now she was dead; victim, no doubt, of one of her “gentlemen friends.”

No one cares much about the fate of girls like Gerda, but Sarah does. And she vows to find her killer. To do so, she turns to Sergeant Frank Malloy. As the two pursue an investigation that leads from the bright lights of Coney Island to the stately homes of Fifth Avenue, they find that their shared passion for justice may cost them dearly...

Originally published March 2000 in mass market paperback.

(A Gaslight Mystery #2)
Berkley Trade, September 2010
ISBN-10: 0425239721
ISBN-13: 9780425239728
288 pages Trade Size (reprint)
$15.00

Also by Victoria Thompson:
Murder on Lexington Avenue, June 2011
Murder on Sisters' Row, June 2011
Murder on Lexington Avenue, June 2010
Murder on Waverly Place, June 2010
Murder on Astor Place, September 2009
Murder on Waverly Place, June 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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