Title: Masterpiece of murder
Subtitle: a Gilded Age mystery
Description: 1890's new York is a world of elegance, glamour, immense wealth , side by side with police corruption on a grand scale, powerful criminal   gangs, grinding poverty.  Beautiful socialite Brooke devlin and her husband Matt devlin, New York city police detective, have just returned from an extended honeymoon in europe.  Matt tackles the murder of a senior curator at the Manhattan museum of art.  What was he doing in the museum that night?  Who killed him?  Was the murder related to a series of masterpiece thefts, which later turned out to be forgeries?  This is a super detective mystery and a fun look at New York at the turn of the century, including the criminal underworld.
Subjects: mystery, Social life and customs, Women detectives, Fiction, Devlin, brooke (fictitious character), fiction, Devlin, matt (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, New york (n.y.), fiction
Places: United States, New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York
People: Brooke devlin, Matt devlin
Time periods: 1898