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Engaging. . . . The 19thcentury local color makes a good mystery even more enjoyable.Publishers WeeklyA hell of a yarn that moves with the velocity of a newspaperman on a hot story. Michael ConnellyAbsorbing . . . puts modernday urban scandals into perspective.The New York Times Book ReviewFabulous.The Charlotte ObserverA superb mystery.Mystery NewsDelightful. . . . This is the bawdy, seamy, ripeforreform Gotham City no reader would want to live inThe crooks! The corsets!but any reader would enjoy visiting.Detroit Free PressA gritty and fascinating glimpse of New York in the late 19th century.San Francisco ChronicleBlaine is a wonderful tour guide of old New York.The Washington Post Book WorldNew York, 1893. Max Greengrass is an expugilist turned spacerater for the New York Heraldhes paid by the column inch. With no regular salary, Max must hustle for his stories. After a lucky night at the faro table, he nearly trips over his big scoop: four cats, killed and ritually arranged on a Greenwich Village sidewalk. Catricide! Max sells the story and pursues it, from low dives to posh mansions; from a proper, if eccentric, organization of respectable ladies, who are killing stray cats to save them; to a bizarre conspiracy of tenement landlords and insurance interests who are getting rich by exploiting the misery of the poorer elements of society.At the heart of The Midnight Band of Mercy is a story too strange to be true, except most of it is. Based on actual eventsactual crimesthat occurred in New York City in 1893, Michael Blaines brilliant historical novel recreates an age when American belief in scientific progress led to the slaughter of innocents.
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