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Author researched 1840s Pittsburgh for mystery novel 'The Spectrum'
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 8, 2007 by Patricia Lowry
Pittsburgh constable John Parker has a problem. Make that several problems: People keep turning up dead, and they seem to have one thing in common -- they're all Irish immigrants.
Parker's boss doesn't think that has anything to do with it, and maybe it doesn't. After all, the city's just been invaded by almost a thousand soldiers on their way to war with Mexico. Who knows what can happen with so many weapons and so much testosterone on the loose?
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