TY - SER KW - Roman Catholics KW - Socialism KW - Irish Americans KW - Polish Americans KW - Ukrainian Americans KW - steel industry KW - Armenian Americans AU - Karen Rose Cercone AB - 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. C1 - 1905 C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Ohio River; Monongahela River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Market Square; Strip District; Mt. Washington; Hill District; North Side; Troy Hill; Beaver County; Ambridge; Westmoreland County; Monessen C4 - Mystery; Historical; Detective CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - 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. PB - Berkley Prime Crime PP - New York PY - 1997 RN -

Karen Rose Cercone (1957— ) co-wrote a dozen Star Trek novels under the pseudonym “L. A. Graf,” which stands cleverly for “Let's All Get Rich and Famous.” Cercone, who holds a PhD in geoscience, earns her living as a professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She also holds a MFA from the University of Pittsburgh Writing Program. She lives in Trafford, Westmoreland County.

EP - 264 p. TI - Steel Ashes ER -