Late-nineteenth-century New York City police detective John ""Dutch"" Tonneman becomes disturbed when he links the brutal murder of a journalist to an attractive female photographer whom he has been unable to forget.
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The house of the title is police headquarters for New York's Gas House district, workplace of detective John (Dutch) Tonneman- -descendant of the Tonneman family chronicled in this series (The Dutchman's Dilemma, 1995, etc.). Now, it's 1895, and John, along with fellow detective and cousin Bo Clancy, is helping the new police commissioner in his campaign to root out the graft rampant at all levels of the force. A Union Square labor parade, its marchers set upon by thugs, brings John to a chance meeting with pretty Esther Breslau, a young, bilingual, Jewish immigrant smart enough to have won a job as helper to rich bachelor photographer Oswald Cook, complete with a room in his comfortable Gramercy Park house. A frequent visitor there is freelance reporter Robert Roman, who accompanies Esther as she takes pictures in Union Square, capturing some of the violence. Before the day's over, Roman has been beaten to death; the photographic plates have been smashed; John's fallen in love with Esther, despite his Catholic misgivings, and the hunt is on for Roman's killer. Countless minor scams and often vivid characters dot the landscape of the Lower East Side, while John, Bo, and a gutsy Esther work to ferret out the corrupt forces behind the murder. Meanwhile, John makes a discovery about his family roots that could ease the way with Esther, but will it? Despite the weight of its historical detail, scores of minor players, and tiny subplots, this fifth in a series is the best so far--carried along by a comprehensible plot and the vitality of its major characters. Overrich, then, but readable. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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The first four books in Maan Meyers's critically acclaimed historical mystery series followed the Tonneman family from New Amsterdam in 1664 to New York in 1808. Now, The House On Mulberry Street introduces John (Dutch) Tonneman, a police detective in 1895 New York City, a vibrant, bustling center of commerce, fashion, graft, and ... death. When the brutal murder of a journalist is linked to the attractive female photographer Dutch Tonneman can't forget, the stage is set for the latest entry in a unique series Publishers Weekly called "part fiction, part fact and wholly entertaining!" For those who couldn't get enough of the Victorian suspense of Caleb Carr and Anne Perry, for those who crave an ingeniously plotted mystery, The House On Mulberry Street is mandatory reading.
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THE PLOT OR PREMISE:Esther Breslau is a Jewish immigrant who has found a job working as a photographer in the graft-filled world of 1895 Manhattan. John Tonnerman is an honest cop, a rare commodity on a police-force filled with those on the take and in a city where your innocence depends on the size of your pocketbook. Esther takes a picture during a riot and the thugs notice and come after her. A reporter she's been working with has the plates but the thugs worry about what he knows and take matters into their own hands to silence him forever. John and Esther try to figure it all out. WHAT I LIKED: The research was impeccable, and the epilogue is a nice touch to separate fact from fiction. The writing is first-rate and the settings are alive with the time. Each image portrays the world of the time, and the reader is transported easily with each page. WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE: A couple of small nit-picky points -- there area a lot of characters, which can be a problem to track in mystery stories, but they are sufficiently different here that they don't run together as much. A few of the characters (such as the reporter) were fleshed out a little TOO much, but I'm assuming part of that was with a view to them showing up in future stories too. THE BOTTOM LINE: One of the best historical mysteries I have ever read, and one of the better mysteries period. 4.50 lilypads out of 5.00. Other Information: - Source: New - Original date of review: February 2001, updated 2011 - Tags: Fiction, Prose, Historical, Action, Crime, Legal, Mystery, Amateur Detective, Police
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