Murder in Chinatown (A Gaslight Mystery)

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 Chineseeven the police.

When the new mothers 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 Malloyand together they begin the search themselves. And after they find her, dead in an alley, Sarah and Malloy have ample suspectsfrom both sides of Canal Street.