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Victoria Thompson

Murder in Rose Hill (A Gaslight Mystery)

By Victoria Thompson - Published 2024

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Anyone conducting research in Gilded Age news archives will note the proliferation of ads for patent medicines: concoctions promoted as cure-alls for myriad ...Read Review

City of Betrayal (A Counterfeit Lady Novel)

By Victoria Thompson - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

Nashville, 1920. Suffragists and anti-suffragists gather in Tennessee’s state capitol to lobby legislators who must choose whether to ratify the 19th Amendment. The ...Read Review

City of Fortune (A Counterfeit Lady Novel)

By Victoria Thompson - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

This entertaining novel revolves around horseracing in New York City in 1919 and the cons pulled off by a circle of family and friends. ...Read Review

Murder on Madison Square (A Gaslight Mystery)

By Victoria Thompson - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

Part of the fun of Victoria Thompson’s Gaslight Mysteries series is delving into little-known historical territory. In this book she explores the ...Read Review

Murder on Wall Street (A Gaslight Mystery)

By Victoria Thompson - Published 2021

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Mystery/Crime

Fans of Victoria Thompson’s Gaslight Mystery series will be delighted to learn that the author has brought back the charming ex-gangster Jack ...Read Review

City of Schemes (A Counterfeit Lady Novel)

By Victoria Thompson - Published 2021

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Mystery/Crime

In post-WWI New York, Elizabeth Miles, a former con artist, is preparing to marry Gideon, a respectable lawyer. Elizabeth, wishing to have a ...Read Review

City of Scoundrels (A Counterfeit Lady Novel)

By Victoria Thompson - Published 2019

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Lawyer Gideon Bates is visited by Corporal Tom Preston, who wishes to draft a will in favour of his new wife, Rose, before ...Read Review

Murder on Trinity Place (A Gaslight Mystery)

By Victoria Thompson - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

“All he ever talks about is milk.” Thus Sarah Malloy hears the first of many complaints about Clarence Pritchard, the neighborhood dairyman in 1899 ...Read Review