@book{695,
  keywords = {Roman Catholics, Socialism, Irish Americans, Polish Americans, Ukrainian Americans, steel industry, Armenian Americans},
  author = {Karen Rose Cercone},
  title = {Steel Ashes},
  abstract = {Milo Kachigan is a detective who had concealed his Armenian heritage in order to rise in the Irish-controlled police bureau. Helen Sorby, an energetic social worker and reporter for a socialist paper, dedicates herself to Pittsburgh’s swelling population of immigrant laborers.  After a blast and a fierce fire kills a Polish couple in a Hunky tenement on Breed Street, Milo and Helen investigate and a relationship develops. The case leads them through the East End, Market Square, the Strip District, the Hill District, Ambridge, and ends in a Troy Hill cemetery. The historical accuracy of Cercone's novels is brilliant.},
  year = {1997},
  pages = {264 p.},
  publisher = {Berkley Prime Crime},
  address = {New York},
  language = {English},
}