Murder on Amsterdam Avenue
Subtitle: a gaslight mystery
By: Victoria Thompson
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780425260470
Subjects: Sarah Brandt (Fictitious character); Frank Malloy (Fictitious character); Women detectives; Fiction
Description: "In the midst of Sarah and Frank's wedding preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side, where Charles Fairfax, the son of family friends, has died unexpectedly after suffering from a mysterious disease.  It is a tragic and all-too-common story or so it seems.  Charles's father asks to speak with Sarah privately.  He believes his son was poisoned and would like Sarah and Frank to look into the matter with the utmost discretion.  Putting their own personal affairs on hold, Sarah and Frank soon learn that not everyone wants to know more about Charles's death, particularly if he was murdered.  As they unravel secrets that reach back to the War Between the States, they also discover that they are in the company of a very present danger"--