Murder At Bertram's Bower
Doubleday, Mar 2001, 22.95, 336 pp.
ISBN: 0385496370
In 1892 South End Boston, police officer Joseph Flynn discovers the horribly slashed body of twenty year old Mary Flaherty. The victim worked as a secretary to Agatha Montgomery, the head of Bertram's Bower, a place for wayward women. Mary lived in the Bower. The next evening, someone brutally murders Mary's roommate Bridget Brown in the same manner.
Besides her near mental collap...