Murder, Murder, Murder in Gilded Central Park (eBook)

Cecelia Tichi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
436 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
979-8-9851216-1-2 (ISBN)

Infos

In her Fifth Avenue mansion in autumn, 1898, silver heiress Val DeVere learns a third young woman's strangled body has been found nearby in New York's Central Park. The victim could be someone like Val's late mother-or her-for the Valentine Mackle DeVere is one generation from the Irish immigrants who now risk their lives toiling in the city that promised a better life.Heartsick, Val joins her well-connected husband, Roddy (Roderick Windham DeVere), to press the mayor for action, but scandal-ridden city hall finds little time for the case of "e;disposable"e; young women who frequent the park at night.A maverick police detective urges the DeVeres to help him find the killer, but his "e;evidence"e; ensnares a family friend and could send an innocent man to death row. The couple feel on trial when the detective baits them with Roddy's Old New York heritage: "e;Tell me this, Mr. DeVere...how many more murders before you and Mrs. DeVere cooperate to save the park your forefathers built?"e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
• Schlagworte: 19th century New York • Crime Fiction • Gilded Age • High Society • historical fiction • murder mysteries • Rich New Yorkers
• ISBN-13: 979-8-9851216-1-2 / 9798985121612