Steel Ashes
| Year of Publication |
1997
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
264 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Publisher |
Berkley Prime Crime
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| 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. The historical accuracy of Cercone's novels is brilliant.
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| 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. |
| Time |
1905
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