Murder on Lenox Hill

By Victoria Thompson

Subjects: Sarah Brandt (Fictitious character), Illegitimate children, Women detectives, Brandt, sarah (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Midwives, Birthfathers

Description: Hired by the wealthy Linton family to confirm that their teenage daughter, a mentally deficient young girl who is constantly protected, has somehow become pregnant, turn-of-the-century midwife Sarah Brandt investigates when one of the prospective fathers--and suspects--turns up dead, the victim of poison.