By Virtue Fall
By Maggie MacKeever
Publisher: Vintage Ink Press
Published: May 1, 2026
ISBN: 9780989519793
Genre: Historical Mystery
New York, 1892.
The Bowery never lacks for spectacle: gaslit gambling dens, crowded dance pavilions, and saloons roaring late into the night. The Variety Theater draws packed houses—and the outrage of reformers who condemn them all as citadels of vice.
Nonetheless, Miss Daisy Dobbins is determined to let nothing interfere with her dream of becoming a vaudeville star.
At the center of the storm stands a charismatic preacher determined to cleanse the city of corruption. His sermons draw devoted followers and bitter enemies.
When a young woman is struck down outside a garment factory, the violence seems at first an isolated tragedy.
But it is not.
As the bodies mount, private inquiry agent Delia Ross is drawn into a web of ambition, hypocrisy, and violence stretching from factory floors to vaudeville halls to the heights of city politics.
She is about to discover a dangerous truth.
On the Bowery, virtue can be as deadly as vice.
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About the Author
Maggie MacKeever is the author of forty-plus novels, most of them set during England’s Regency era. She has been published by Fawcett Crest, Pocketbooks, Doubleday, Putnam, Zebra, Belgrave House/Regency Reads and Vintage Ink Press. Maggie lives in Los Angeles with two spoiled housecats, where she is at work on the next installment in her Cobblestone Conundrum series, set in 1890’s New York.
