![]() Murder in Chinatown – In Chinatown to deliver a baby, Sarah Brandt meets a group of women she might otherwise never have come across: Irish girls who, after alighting on Ellis Island alone, have married Chinese men in the same predicament.So does the woman’s own mother, an Irishwoman who spreads the story that the girl was murdered by her Italian in-laws, the Ruoccos – an accusation that inflames tensions between the two immigrant groups. The family insists that the death was from complications of childbirth. Murder in Little Italy – 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.It’s a delicate situation, casting suspicion on those close to the Lintons, including their beloved minister, the Reverend Oliver Upchurch. The pregnancy is a mystery, however, as the young woman-mentally still a child herself-is never left on her own and denies that any man has ever hurt her. Murder on Lenox Hill – When the affluent Lintons of Lenox Hill summon Sarah Brandt to examine their teenage daughter, their worst fear is confirmed: she is with child.Malloy is up to the challenge – but he faces a different kind of challenge when he encounters Sarah Brandt paying a condolence call on the Van Dykes. Murder on Marble Row – When an explosion kills wealthy industrialist Gregory Van Dyke, Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt presumes that anarchists are responsible and personally asks Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to track them down.And when one of the girls is found dead and refused burial because of her former life, Sarah’s passion for justice is aroused. The work being done there so impresses Sarah that she volunteers to help out however she can. Murder on Mulberry Bend – The Prodigal Son Mission on Mulberry Bend stands as a refuge for girls who otherwise would have to live by selling the only thing they have of value-themselves.When the young woman later turns up dead under the infamous hanging tree in Washington Square, Nelson is the prime suspect. She is even more surprised to learn that mild-mannered Nelson Ellsworth has a mistress and has gotten her with child. Murder on Washington Square – Sarah Brandt is surprised when the son of her superstitious next-door neighbor asks for her professional advice.Only Malloy sees what no one else wants to: that Blackwell was murdered in his own home. Murder on Gramercy Park – At a summons from Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy, midwife Sarah Brandt 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.And now she was dead – victim, no doubt, of one of her “gentlemen friends”. Caught up in the false glamour of the city’s nightlife, she would trade her company and her favors for lavish gifts. ![]() It seems that Agnes’ beautiful younger sister, Gerda, had fallen into the life of a “charity girl”. Mark’s Place – Thinking that she has been summoned by German immigrant Agnes Otto to usher a new life into the world, midwife Sarah Brandt is greeted by the news of an untimely death instead. But with Malloy’s help, Sarah begins a dangerous quest to bring the killer to justice-before death claims another victim… The powerful family, fearful of scandal, refuses to permit an investigation. She discovers that the victim is from one of the most prominent families in New York-and the sister of an old friend. At the request of Sergeant Frank Malloy, she searches the girl’s room. Murder on Astor Place – After a routine delivery, Sarah visits her patient in a rooming house-and discovers that another boarder, a young girl, has been killed.Victoria Thompson’s Gaslight Mystery Books in Order:Įvery book in the Gaslight Mystery series works as a standalone story, but the lives of the different characters evolve from one novel to the other. More precisely, these stories follow Sarah Brandt, whose family is one of the oldest in New York City, and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy as they work together, dealing with birth and death in this brutal and evolving society, at a time when Teddy Roosevelt was Police Commissioner (like in The Alienist). This article is about The Gaslight Mystery series which is about Sarah Brandt, a midwife in the turn-of-the-20th-century. Victoria Thompson was the bestselling author of historical romance novels before turning to crime! Now, she explores her love for life in the 19th Century by writing the Gaslight Mystery Series and the Counterfeit Lady Series for Berkley Prime Crime. What is Victoria Thompson’s Gaslight Mystery series about? The Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy series. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.
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