Murder on Lenox Hill
Subtitle: a gaslight mystery
By: Victoria Thompson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Brandt, Sarah (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Women detectives -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Illegitimate children -- Fiction; Birthfathers -- Fiction; Midwives -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Hired by the wealthy Linton family to confirm that their teenage daughter, a mentally deficient young girl who is constantly protected, has somehow become pregnant, turn-of-the-century midwife Sarah Brandt investigates when one of the prospective fathers--and suspects--turns up dead, the victim of poison.