{"id":3919,"date":"2024-10-17T16:48:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T16:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2024-10-31T18:58:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T18:58:01","slug":"no-10-doyers-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3919","title":{"rendered":"No. 10 Doyers Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hero of Vatsal\u2019s (<strong>Kitty Weeks<\/strong> series) latest absorbing historical fiction is Archana (Archie) Morley, a woman braving two new worlds: 1910 New York, where she came for a short visit but stayed after her parents died in Bombay (the novel uses the era\u2019s language), and journalism, working for the Observer newspaper. This charming, gutsy character is barely tolerated by the boss and looked upon with suspicion by her coworkers\u2014perhaps for wearing pants as much as for her race and gender. At home, things are better: Archie is married to the loving and supportive Dr. Phillip Morley, a health department official whose job and tony background give her access to wealth and power. But she\u2019s interested in intriguing stories from every part of town, and won\u2019t let go when Chinese gangsters are killed and the city imposes stern measures on Chinatown. They specifically target tiny, crooked Doyers Street, home of Mock Duck, the steely leader of the Hip Sing Tong gang, whose calm demeanor is belied by the list of gruesome crimes he\u2019s been accused of. The racism endured by New York\u2019s Chinese inhabitants is on stark display as Archie works to report the tangled goings on among Tammany Hall, the city\u2019s Board of Improvement, and the gang underworld. Adding wonderful flavor is the rich detail from Vatsal\u2019s deep research on New York City social and political history, and the gulf between the city\u2019s \u201cmore susceptible classes\u201d and its well-off citizens.<strong> For fans of Vatsal\u2019s previous works and of historical fiction by Mariah Fredricks and Anna Lee Huber.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hero of Vatsal\u2019s (Kitty Weeks series) latest absorbing historical fiction is Archana (Archie) Morley, a woman braving two new worlds: 1910 New York, where she came for a short&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[110,206,217,54,55,56],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-20th-century","tag-asian-american-pacific-islander","tag-diversity-multicultural","tag-historical","tag-mystery-detective","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/10-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/10.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}