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Murder in Chinatown
Overview
In Chinatown to deliver a baby, Sarah Brandt meets a group of women she might otherwise never have come across: Irish girls who, after alighting on Ellis Island alone, have married Chinese men in the same predicament. But with bigotry in New York from every side, their mixed-race children are often treated badly, by the Irish, the Chinese--even the police. When the new mother's half-Chinese, half-Irish, 15-year-old niece goes missing, Sarah knows that alerting the constables would prove futile. So she turns to Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy--and together they begin the search themselves. And after they find her, dead in an alley, Sarah and Malloy have ample suspects--from both sides of Canal Street.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780425222058
- ISBN-10: 0425222055
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- Publish Date: June 2008
- Dimensions: 6.73 x 4.3 x 0.89 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.34 pounds
- Page Count: 320
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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