This mystery has a well written plot with surprises, twists, & turns.Attention to historical details regarding NYC in its Gilded Age,both its glory & its squalor,spoke to the history buff in me.Characters are engaging & well fleshed out. Midwife Sarah Brandt Malloy & her detective husband,Frank Malloy,become embroiled in solving the murder of a most despicable “upper echelon” man, Hayden Norcross,at the request of an ex-mobster who worries he 🔽