Gaslight Mystery (6 books in series)
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review 1: Sarah is called to attend a birth. The houses she enters by door. It is richly furnished and very quiet. The client refuses her help at first. Later she learns that house is a brothel and the Mother a whore. She promises take the baby and to deliver a message to woman that saves ...
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review 1: Frank Malloy is called to a school for deaf and dumb students as one patrons, Mr Wooten, of the school has been murdered. Brain, his son goes to another school that teaches signing signals. Frank learns Mr Wooten has deaf daughter, Electra and is very angry that Electra is learni...
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review 1: This is part of a series - fairly deep into the series, at #13 - about a midwife who doubles as a detective. In the beginning of the book she goes to deliver a baby in what it takes her a long chapter, laden with the broadest hints imaginable, to figure out is a brothel. The unra...
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review 1: Terrific addition to the Gaslight Mystery Series. It was an engrossing story, timely to today as well as historical and it moved the timeline of Malloy and Sarah along. It will be fun to follow the new "family" as they blend, start new work arrangements, live in turn of the centu...
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review 1: This is one Victoria Thompson best books. Someone inquires at the mission for Catherine's where abouts. Sarah and Maeve go to see this person. They learned that Catherine's Mother's wants her back. Sarah is heartbroken especially after she learns her father want Catherine to live...
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review 1: The mysteries that Sarah Brandt and her police detective friend are ones with great story lines. Victoria Thompson does a great job bringing to life that era and pointing out some of the wrongs done against the poor, especially women. In this story, a wealthy businessman is murde...