The fatal flame
Subtitle: a novel
By: Lyndsay Faye
Series: Timothy Wilde mysteries -- [3]
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780399169489
Subjects: Irish Americans; Fiction; Police; History
Description: "No one in 1840s New York likes fires, but copper star Timothy Wilde least of all. So when an arsonist with an agenda begins threatening Alderman Robert Symmes, a corrupt and powerful leader high in the Tammany Hall ranks, Wilde isn't thrilled to be involved. His reservations escalate further when his brother Valentine announces that he'll be running against Symmes in the upcoming election, making both himself and Timothy a host of powerful enemies. Meanwhile, the love of Wilde's life, Mercy Underhill, unexpectedly shows up on his doorstep and takes under her wing a starving orphan with a tenuous grasp on reality"--Amazon.com.
Notes: "A novel"--Jacket.