The Blackest Bird

Joel Rose

first published 2007 Canongate, 2008

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. At the end of a long and distinguished career Old Hays's investigation will ultimately span a decade, involving gang wars, grave robbing, and clues hidden in the poems of the hopeless romantic an...

Where to get it

Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title

This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.

Change library
You pick this yourself. We don't guess it from your location, and we don't record where you are.

How it reads

Pace We don't know yet not analysed yet
Density We don't know yet not analysed yet
Tone We don't know yet not analysed yet

Your log

Sign in to log this book — your log is private to you.

What readers call it

No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.

Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.

Content warnings

Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.

No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.

Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.

Add a content warning

Editions we hold

The Blackest Bird ebook · 2009 · Canongate Books · 9781847676382
The Blackest Bird paperback · 2008 · W. W. Norton · 480 pages · 9780393330618
Blackest Bird edition · 2008 · Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 480 pages · 9780393344493
The blackest bird edition · 2008 · Canongate · 9781847670588
The Blackest Bird paperback · 2008 · Anchor Canada · 480 pages · 9780385662406
Blackest Bird edition · 2008 · Canongate Books · 480 pages · 9781847670014
The Blackest Bird edition · 2007 · Doubleday Canada · 480 pages · 9780385662390
The Blackest Bird edition · 2007 · W. W. Norton · 464 pages · 9780393062311

Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.