Murder on Fifth Avenue
Victoria Thompson

Midwife Sarah Brandt braves the dangers of the tenements in nineteenth-century New York to help the impoverished and, with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy, bring the guilty that prey on them to justice. Now, the latest novel in the Edgar^®-nominated series finds Sarah and Malloy investigating the murder of a Knickerbocker club member who was made to pay his dues...

Sarah Brandt’s family is one of the oldest in New York City, and her father, Felix Decker, takes his position in society very seriously. He still refuses to resign himself to his daughter being involved with an Irish Catholic police detective. But when a member of his private club — the very exclusive Knickerbocker — is murdered, Decker forms an uneasy alliance with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to solve the crime as discreetly as possible.

Malloy soon discovers that despite his social standing, the deceased — Algernon Abernathy — was no gentleman. In fact, he’s left behind his own unofficial club of sorts, populated by everyone who despised him. As he and Sarah sort through the suspects, it becomes clear to her that her father is evaluating more than the detective’s investigative abilities, and that, on a personal level, there is much more at stake for Malloy than discovering who revoked Abernathy’s membership — permanently.

(A Gaslight Mystery #14)
Berkley (Prime Crime), May 2012
ISBN-10: 0425247414
ISBN-13: 9780425247419
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 Sisters' Row, June 2011
Murder on Lexington Avenue, June 2011
Murder on St. Mark's Place, September 2010
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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