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In Victoria Thompson's Murder on Waverly Place, midwife-sleuth Sarah Brandt is surprised by her mother's desire to attend séances in an undesirable section of New York City. During one dark session, death strikes a participant while all are holding hands around the table. Now it's up to Sarah-and her detective sergeant friend-to deliver her mom from scandal and ferret out the murderer.
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Widow Sarah Brandt asks Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to solve the four year cold murder of her husband, Doctor Tom Brandt, and with the aid of Sarah's wealthy father and some Pinkerton agents, Malloy concocts a theory that could potentially destroy any hope he has of building a future with Sarah.
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"Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope's Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine's nursemaid, now acting on behalf of the girl's mother to reunite them. Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah asks Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to interview the woman at her tenement in Chelsea, he finds she has...
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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...
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Frank Malloy, a detective in turn-of-the-century New York, calls upon midwife Sarah Brandt for help when he is assigned to investigate the murder of Nehemiah Wooten, a Harvard scholar who opposed his hearing impaired daughter Electra's plans to marry a teacher at the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb because of his belief that she and her husband would have children who were also hearing impaired.
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