In the sweltering New York City, summer of 1841, the beautiful 'Segar Girl' Mary Rogers is brutally murdered. Popular amongst the journalistic and publishing elite, the task of finding her killer falls to High Constable Jacob Hays. This is a historical detective novel.
'Joel Rose has caught the wild spirit of nineteenth-century New York with terrific panache.' Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential
New York City, 1841. When the body of young, beautiful Mary Rogers is found savagely murdered, High Constable Jacob Hays is charged with finding her...