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Like a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of Nyc, Sarah Brandt has seen her share of pleasure and suffering, birth and death. Today, she discovers that offense doesn’t discriminate, once the highest echelons of society are rocked by murder… A Gaslight Mystery At a summons from Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy, Sarah comes at the elegant residence of famous magnetic healer Edmund Blackwell to locate his partner in labor—and the great physician dead from an apparent suicide. Just Malloy sees what no body else really wants to: that Blackwell was killed in their own home… Following a successful delivery, the Blackwell infant comes mysteriously ill. Counting on her nurse’s woman’s instinct and instruction, Sarah discovers the origin of the baby’s sickness—and discovers a scandal leading Malloy’s analysis down a path provided with fraud, greed, and desire…