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" The blackest bird : "
Joel Rose.
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BL
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1012336
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b766706
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| Main Entry
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Rose, Joel.
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| Title & Author
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The blackest bird : : a novel of murder in nineteenth-century New York /\ Joel Rose.
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: W.W. Norton & Co.,, ©2007.
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479 pages :: maps ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0393062317
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: 1841959219
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: 9780393062311
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: 9781841959214
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Abstract
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During the summer of 1841, High Constable Jacob Hays, New York City's first detective, finds himself investigating a series of brutal crimes, including the rape and murder of Mary Rogers, a young clerk at a Manhattan tobacco shop.
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Hays, Jacob,1772-1850
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Rogers, Mary,1820-1841
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Hays, Jacob,1772-1850.
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Rogers, Mary,1820-1841.
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| Subject
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Murder-- New York (State)-- New York-- History-- 19th century, Fiction.
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Murder.
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New York (N.Y.), History, 1775-1865, Fiction.
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New York (State), New York.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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PS3568.O7634B55 2007
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