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An edition of The Blackest Bird (2007)

The blackest bird

a novel of history and murder

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  • 3 Want to read

Sweltering New York City, summer of 1841, the beautiful ‘Segar Girl' Mary Rogers is brutally murdered. Popular amongst the journalistic and publishing elite, the task of finding her killer falls to High Constable Jacob Hays. At the end of a long and distinguished career Old Hays's investigation will ultimately span a decade, involving gang wars, grave robbing, and clues hidden in the poems of the hopeless romantic and minstrel of the night, Edgar Allan Poe. Superbly researched and compellingly readable, The Blackest Bird is both a richly textured and atmospheric portrait of the birth of New York, a city raging with bloodshed and duplicity, and a thrilling murder mystery.

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Canongate
Language
English

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Subjects

Literature, Fiction, Investigation, Murder, History, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Crime, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general

People

Jacob Hays (1772-1850), Mary Rogers (1820-1841)

Places

New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York

Times

1775-1865, 19th century
Edition Availability
Cover of: The Blackest Bird
The Blackest Bird
2009, Canongate Books
eBook in English
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Cover of: Blackest Bird
Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York
2008, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
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Cover of: The Blackest Bird
The Blackest Bird
March 11, 2008, Anchor Canada
Paperback in English
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Cover of: The blackest bird
The blackest bird: a novel of history and murder
2008, Canongate
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Blackest Bird
Blackest Bird
2008, Canongate Books
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: The Blackest Bird
The Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York
March 10, 2008, W. W. Norton
Paperback in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: The Blackest Bird
The Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York
March 12, 2007, W. W. Norton
in English
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Cover of: The Blackest Bird
The Blackest Bird
March 13, 2007, Doubleday Canada
in English
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Originally published: 2007.

Published in
Edinburgh

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54
Library of Congress
PS3568.O7634

The Physical Object

Pagination
pages cm

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL33335826M
Internet Archive
blackestbirdnove0000rose_d8h8
ISBN 10
184767058X
ISBN 13
9781847670588
OCLC/WorldCat
183149121

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