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  Gaslight Mystery: Book 1

  Murder on Astor Place

  by Victoria Thompson

  Sprinkled with fascinating details of turn-of-the-century New York City, Thompson's old-fashioned mystery takes the reader from the mansions of Fifth Avenue to the flophouses of the Lower East Side. Sarah Brandt is a midwife who has been estranged from her wealthy family for years. When Alicia VanDamm, a young woman from a prominent family, is murdered, Sarah must return to the upper-class society she has scorned... (more)
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  Gaslight Mystery: Book 4

  Murder on Washington Square

  by Victoria Thompson

  Turn-of-the-century New York City midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy are thrust into a twisted case of murder-when a seductress falls victim to her own charades. "Victoria Thompson shines...Anne Perry and Caleb Carr fans rejoice!" (Tamar Myers)
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  Gaslight Mystery: Book 2

  Murder on St. Mark's Place

  by Victoria Thompson

  In turn-of-the century New York City, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy see birth and death--and even murder.... Phenomenal praise for Murder on Astor Place : "Victoria Thompson shines....Anne Perry and Caleb Carr fans rejoice!" --Tamar Myers, author of The Hand that Rocks the Ladle "Tantalizing." --Catherine Coulter "Fascinating."-- Publishers Weekly
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  Molly Murphy Series: Book 4

  In Like Flynn

  by Rhys Bowen

  A woman private eye in a man’s world, Molly Murphy is having a hard time succeeding as a New York shamus. That’s why she agrees to go undercover for the NYPD to expose a pair of spiritualist sisters as con-artists even though the offer comes from police captain Daniel Sullivan. Sullivan had once won Molly’s heart—until she discovered he already had a socialite fiancé and an upcoming wedding. Now Molly’s... (more)
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  Nell Sweeney Mysteries: Book 5

  Murder in the North End

  by P. B. Ryan

  When one of Boston's honest cops is wanted for killing a petty criminal, governess Nell Sweeney descends into the seedy and dangerous North End to prove his innocence. But her employer won't let her conduct this investigation alone.
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  Gaslight Mystery: Book 5

  Murder on Mulberry Bend

  by Victoria Thompson

  In this all-new Gaslight Mystery, turn-of-the-century New York City midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy discover how the squalor of the streets can breed madness and murder.
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  Gaslight Mystery: Book 3

  Murder on Gramercy Park

  by Victoria Thompson

  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... (more)
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  Gaslight Mystery: Book 7

  Murder on Lenox Hill

  by Victoria Thompson

  Midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy's most disturbing case to date begins not with a murder, but with the pregnancy of a young woman-who is mentally still a child herself. And when suspicion falls on a beloved minister, the sordid affair could take its toll in innocent lives.
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  Gaslight Mystery: Book 8

  Murder in Little Italy

  by Victoria Thompson

  A deadly delivery arrives with the eighth novel in the bestselling, Edgar(r)-nominated Gaslight series. When midwife Sarah Brandt visits Little Italy to check up on a new mother who delivered her baby just the day before, she finds the young woman dead. The family insists that the death was from complications of childbirth. Sarah thinks not. Neither does the woman's own mother, an Irishwoman who spreads the... (more)
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  Molly Murphy Series: Book 5

  Oh Danny Boy

  by Rhys Bowen

  While Irish immigrant Molly Murphy contemplates giving up PI work in New York to move West, she's determined to avoid the handsome but deceiving NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan. That is, until Daniel is accused of accepting bribes and lands himself in the Tombs, the notorious city jail. When Daniel asks Molly to help prove he was framed, she finds herself drawn into the case-and to the case of a serial killer who's... (more)
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  Gaslight Mystery: Book 6

  Murder on Marble Row

  by Victoria Thompson

  New York City Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt is convinced that anarchists are responsible for the death of a wealthy industrialist. Assigned with proving this suspicion, Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy finds himself turning to his unrequited love--midwife Sarah Brandt--for help in navigating the high circles of Fifth Avenue society to catch a killer.
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  Grace and Favor: Book 1

  Anything Goes

  by Jill Churchill

  They Have Inherited a Lovely Upstate Mansion. . . The crash of 1929 has ended the party for high-living New Yorkers Lily Brewster and her brother Robert and takes them from the upper echelons of the idle rich and deposits them to the lowly depths of the disillusioned poor. However, rescue arrives in the form of their recently deceased great-uncle Horation who bequeaths to them Grace and Favor "Cottage" which is... (more)
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  Molly Murphy Series: Book 3

  For the Love of Mike

  by Rhys Bowen

  A woman ahead of her time, Molly Murphy is determined to be a private detective. Having inherited the cases of her deceased mentor, Paddy Reilly, she's following philandering husbands, tracking down a runaway Dublin debutante, and working in a sweatshop to discover who's purloining dress designs. None of her jobs seem dangerous...at first. When a woman's body is fished out of the East River, Molly fears it's the... (more)
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  George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield: Book 3

  Murder on the Minnesota

  by Conrad Allen

  Fresh from a harrowing trans-Atlantic crossing aboard the Mauretania, and having recently earned a reputation as the best team of shipboard sleuths to sail the seven seas, George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield hardly set foot on land before embarking on another assignment. Temporarily forsaking the Cunard Line to work as private detectives aboard the Minnesota, a combination freighter and passenger ship... (more)
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  George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield: Book 5

  Murder on the Marmora

  by Conrad Allen

  George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, ship's detectives, accept a new assignment on a cruise ship bound for Egypt. The Duke and Duchess of Fife are aboard, and the detectives' secondary task is to keep an eye on the royals and do their best to ensure their security. Through the eyes of Conrad Allen, a luxury cruise to Egypt in 1908 becomes a majestic voyage, albeit with a murderer in the mix, upon which... (more)
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  George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield: Book 1

  Murder on the Lusitania

  by Conrad Allen

  MURDER TRAVELS FIRST CLASS...In 1907, the world applauds as the Cunard Line launches a history-making ship. The magnificent Lusitania, hoping to capture the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing from Liverpool to New York, attracts both the beautiful and the damned for its maiden voyage.Among its privileged passengers strolls the debonair American George Porter Dillman, a shipbuilder's son--and a detective secretly... (more)
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  George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield: Book 7

  Murder on the Oceanic

  by Conrad Allen

  When the Oceanic sets sail from England+s Port of Southampton, it+s ultimate destination is New York. But it must make one very important stop first: at Cherbourg, in France, to pick up internationally renowned financier and art collector J.P. Morgan, fresh from a continental buying spree sure to have turned up numerous priceless objets d+art. Needless to say, George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, the... (more)
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  George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield: Book 2

  Murder on the Mauretania

  by Conrad Allen

  Only a few short months after crossing the Atlantic aboard the Lusitania, George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield are back in Liverpool to embark on the first voyage of the Mauretania. Again working undercover as private detectives, the two mingle effortlessly among the ship's other passengers. Soon after it leaves port, the vessel is battered by severe weather that confines the passengers to their cabins.... (more)
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  George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield: Book 6

  Murder on the Salsette

  by Conrad Allen

  Genevieve Masefield and George Porter Dillman make a living anonymously, cruising the seven seas aboard the early twentieth century's most extravagant sailing vessels as ship's detectives. In this line of work they've experienced more than their share of humanity. Along with the members of first class in all their finery, the card cheats and pickpockets plying their trade, the lascivious crew members and elderly... (more)
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  George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield: Book 4

  Murder on the Caronia

  by Conrad Allen

  As ship's detectives for the Cunard Line, Genevieve Masefield and George Porter Dillman have met all kinds of people. Their latest voyage, this time aboard the famous Caronia, is another hugely fun romp on the high seas for two detectives rapidly becoming fan favorites in Conrad Allen's inventive historical series.