Steel Ashes

Year of Publication
1997
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
264 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Karen Rose Cercone
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
City
New York
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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.
Author Biography

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.

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