Murder in Chinatown

Description:

The ninth in the Edgar® Award-nominated series featuring midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Malloy in turn-of-the-century New York City.Sarah Brandt has made her uneasy way to Chinatown to deliver a baby. There she meets a group of Irish women who, completely alone at Ellis Island, married Chinese men in the same predicament. But even as a new century dawns, New Yorkers still cling to their own kind, scorning children of mixed races.When the new mother's half-Chinese, half-Irish niece goes missing, Sarah knows that alerting the police will accomplish nothing, and seeks the one person she can turn to-Detective Sergeant Malloy.And when the missing girl is found dead in a Chinatown alley, Sarah and Malloy have ample suspects in her murder-from both sides of Canal Street.

subjects: Mystery,  Women detectives,  Police,  Racially mixed children,  Sarah Brandt (Fictitious character),  Fiction,  Frank Malloy (Fictitious character),  Midwives,  Brandt, sarah (fictitious character), fiction,  New york (state), fiction,  Malloy, frank (fictitious character), fiction,  Midwives, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general

Places: New York (State),  New York,  Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)