Gaslight mysteries (Victoria Thompson)

Following a routine delivery in a rooming house, turn-of-the-century midwife Sarah Brandt discovers that another boarder, a young girl, has been murdered and, despite the hindrance of the girl's powerful family, joins forces with Sergeant Frank Malloy to find the killer before he can strike again.

As a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen her share of suffering and joy, birth and death. Now, she learns that crime doesn’t discriminate, when the highest echelons of society are rocked by murder…

A Gaslight Mystery

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

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Sarah Brandt reluctantly attends a séance with her mother and she is shocked when one of their fellow attendees later dies during a séance, a situation that forces Sarah to protect her mother from the ensuing scandal.

Sarah Brandt and Sergeant Frank Malloy investigate the murder of a charitable lady of means who rescued a prostitute and her newborn.

Sarah Brandt and Sergeant Frank Mallloy scour Victorian Manhattan to investigate the death of a nursemaid who claims to know the birthmother of Sarah's daughter.

Mourning the passing of a family friend who has succumbed to a mysterious disease, Sarah and Frank work around their wedding preparations to unravel a web of secrets while exposing a Civil War-era crime and a present-day threat.

Adjusting to married life in New York high society, Frank and Sarah Malloy investigate the suspicious death of a recent graduate from a prestigious women's college whose effort to live a life of independence and civic duty had been built on dangerous secrets.

After taking the risk to pay Catherine's legal father, Parnell Vaughn an unsuccessful actor, to relinquish his rights, Frank and Sarah find themselves investigating his murder.

When Gino Donatelli is wrongly implicated by the police in a brutal murder, Frank and Sarah navigate long-simmering precinct resentments to uncover the truth.

When Alfred Bing, whose wife wanted Frank to manufacture evidence so she could end their marriage, winds up dead, pinned beneath one the wheels of his very own motorcar, the former policeman and his wife find nothing is what it seems as they search for the truth.