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{TEXTBOOK} Murder on Mulberry Bend MURDER ON MULBERRY BEND PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Victoria Thompson | 352 pages | 18 Jul 2011 | Penguin Putnam Inc | 9780425189108 | English | New York, United States Murder on Mulberry Bend : Victoria Thompson : Released: Jun 05, Business Term: 2 Year. Publisher: Berkley. Product recommendations. Murder on Marble Row by Victoria Thompson. Murder on Astor Plac Murder on Washington Murder in Little Ita Murder on Gramercy P Murder on St. Murder in Chinatown by Victoria Thompson. Murder on Wall Stree Murder on Pleasant A Murder on Lenox Hill. Murder on Waverly Place. Murder in Little Italy. Murder in Chinatown. Murder in Chelsea. Murder on Fifth Avenue. Murder in Murray Hill. Murder on Amsterdam Avenue. Murder in Morningside Heights. Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue. Murder in the Bowery. Dorchester Terrace. Where Shadows Dance. A Grave Matter. Anna Lee Huber. Mortal Arts. What Remains of Heaven. A Sunless Sea. Where Serpents Sleep. Blind Justice. A Brush with Shadows. John's Catholic church. The Masses were in Latin back then, so what difference did it make that the Italians didn't speak English??? The homily should have been the only part they wouldn't have understood. Chapter 12 a. Ellsworth repeating a superstition about dropping a knife. The story Danny tells here doesn't quite match the prologue in book ten, Murder on Bank Street. Here he heard 'Hello, Tom'. There it was 'Hello, Brandt'. Chapter Sarah dresses as a famous queen for a Halloween party. Ellsworth, helping her, explains why women brush, not comb, their hair at night. A few other costumes are mentioned as well. This is a good mystery. The murder weapon wasn't a surprise because of other books I've read, but the climax with the killer was quite chilling. Once I realized that Murder on Mulberry Bend was likely to be the book that introduced Maeve and Catherine, I could hardly wait to read it. I'm glad it didn't disappoint. Frank has been called to City Park to investigate the body of a woman found by a park bench. The victim is face down. Yet he believes the body to be Sarah Brandt as he recognizes her clothes, hat and hair. But when body is turned over it is a young woman he has never seen before. Each attracted to the other but their backgrounds are very different. The murder is well constructed and the ending is a surprising turn. The narrative is fair at best, and I found myself wishing that Ms Thompson had continued with the narrator she used in the first three books of the series. Duvall's Italian immigrants might just as well have been Chinese Also, the elderly next-door neighbor has the voice of a 20 year old college coed. That's shoddy narrating. If you're looking for dramatic, interesting twists, this is not the series for you. This series is cozy and leisurely. The settings of 19th century NYC are well described and the main characters are thoroughly enjoyable. That is what drew me in and leaves me wanting more. Very little mystery action,story plodded along. The only reason I kept going was to read abt the Italian immigrants. This is the street my ancestors settled on when they came to America. I enjoyed reading abt the lives of the immigrants at that time. The best part of the book was the "author's notes"at the end of the book. LauGal Aug 16, The series is getting better with each book. An edition of this book was published by Tantor Media. Home Groups Talk More Zeitgeist. I Agree This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. Series: A Gaslight Mystery 5. Members Reviews Popularity Average rating Mentions 14 46, 3. The work being done there so impresses midwife Sarah Brandt that she volunteers to help out however she can-with clothes, with medical assistance, and with the organization of a benefit dinner. And when one of the girls is found dead and refused burial because of her former life, Sarah's passion for justice is aroused. Reluctantly, sergeant Frank Malloy agrees to look into the death, if only to keep Sarah from endangering herself by pursuing the matter. But Sarah cannot be kept out of the investigation, and, just as Malloy feared, her attempts to find the cause of the unfortunate girl's death put her in deadly danger-from an unexpected source. No current Talk conversations about this book. JalenV Sep 18, Bettesbooks Jun 16, LauGal Aug 16, The series is getting better with each book. Status Victoria Thompson — primary author all editions calculated Chandler, Karen Cover artist secondary author some editions confirmed. Belongs to Series A Gaslight Mystery 5. You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data. Murder on Mulberry Bend. Maeve Smith a girl at the Prodigal Son Mission, last name supplied in a later book. Richard Dennis rich banker, Hazel's widower, likes Sarah. Catherine here called 'Aggie' for Agnes, a mute little girl who was left at the mission some months ago. Brian Malloy Frank's deaf 3-yr-old son by Kathleen. Ellsworth Edna - as revealed in book 22 - Sarah's nosy, superstitious, and kind next-door neighbor. Danny teenaged street boy who witnessed Tom Brandt's murder. Officer Eisenberg Commissioner Roosevelt allows Jewish men to become cops. Elizabeth Decker Felix's wife, Sarah and Maggie's mother. Emilia Donato a girl at the Prodigal Son Mission. Ugo Ianuzzi Emilia's former lover who beat her until she miscarried. Donato Emilia's mother, makes paper flowers to sell. Murder on Mulberry Bend | Wake County Public Libraries She deliberately introduces him and the reader to the realities of life among New York City's poor. Richard can hardly believe that there are people who would willingly sacrifice privacy for the lower rent they pay for an apartment so close to the Elevated Railway that passengers can look through their windows. It's October, but poor children are still barefoot. Richard declares that the slum known as Little Italy is nothing like Italy. It's run by the Mrs. Her late preacher husband and she founded the place. At least it offers a safe home and classes for girls who no longer have homes and would prefer not to be prostitutes to survive. More than one of these books mention how older children of poor families are sometimes forced to move out and live on their own because their parents can't afford to feed them anymore. Girls who want to abandon prostitution for an honest living are also accepted. Wells has very high standards for the girls' behavior. She's also prejudiced against Catholics. One of her rescued young women, Emilia, has been converted to Protestantism. Wells wants to save her charges' souls. They're taught to read so they can read the Bible. They're also taught homemaking skills. We learn that besides losing her husband, Mrs. Wells lost her daughter when she was only three years old. The widow has an opinion about why she lost her family. The clothes Sarah donates for the girls to wear are accepted. Decker insisted her daughter take some of her clothes now that she's seeing Mr. Dennis socially. Wells allows the neighborhood children to play in the mission's yard on an hourly rotation so the yard isn't too crowded to be enjoyed. Sarah is impressed with this and other things. She volunteers to teach at the mission. Meanwhile, lapsed Catholic Frank Malloy is following up on the tip he got from a prisoner in the last book. There was a witness to Sarah's husband's murder and Frank is determined to find him. Solving Dr. Brandt's murder is his way of trying to pay Sarah back for all she's done for Frank's deaf son, Brian. Sarah is there when Brian finally gets the cast off his formerly club foot. Her surgeon friend, Dr. David Newton, has done an excellent job. It's a happy scene. I started listening to later books in the series, so when I read the earliest books that my library didn't have in audio editions, I was surprised that Brian was crippled. Here is where the three-year-old's new life of mobility begins. By the way, Brian's eyes are described as blue again. Sarah has known Frank for six months, but that doesn't help her understand why he's angry with her. Then Frank says something quite hurtful. One of the mission girls is found murdered in another part of the city. She was wearing some of Sarah's donated clothing, including a hat Frank knows well. At first he thinks it's Sarah. No, it's Emilia, who had been seduced and abandoned before she went to the mission. Did her former lover kill her? Coroner Doc Haynes hasn't done his autopsy yet when Frank takes Sarah to identify her. Sarah spots the lethal wound. Here we learn it's been only a few days since that case was solved. Chapter 3: Yes, 'interfered with' is an old euphemism for rape. Chapter 4: Frank answers Sarah's questions about Mrs. Wells and her husband. Wells won't help Catholics who don't convert. Chapter 5: Maeve is introduced as an Irish girl with 'gangly limbs, frizzy red hair, and enormous eyes'. In chapter 9 we learn those eyes are honey brown. Chapter 6: a.
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