san francisco

Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, are en route to California to settle her family's estate. Once they arrive, a series of mysterious deaths leads them from the winding streets of Chinatown to the unspoken secrets of a parent's marriage and the tragic accident that Mary alone survived. She discovers that even a forgotten past never dies and that it can kill again.

Lt. Lindsay Boxer and the members of the Women's Murder Club face a defensive hospital administration and a wily killer when they set out to learn why a rash of recuperating patients at a San Francisco hospital, on the verge of being released, have suddenly taken a fatal turn for the worse.

Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco--but early one spring morning in 1906 Leo's world is shaken, when he finds himself stranded in the middle of San Francisco as it crumbles and burns to the ground.

Presents a comprehensive account of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the fires that burned for three days afterward killing over three thousand people and destroying twenty-eight thousand buildings, and traces the experiences of those who lived through it.

In 1906, after the devastating earthquake hits San Francisco, twelve-year-old Phillip struggles to save the horses in his family's livery stable.

Describes the devastating earthquake and ensuing fire that destroyed much of San Francisco in the spring of 1906.

Presents life in a barrio in San Francisco, describing the school, recreation, holidays, and family life of an eight-year-old boy who lives there.

Text and photographs depict the celebration of Chinese New Year by Chinese Americans living in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Tells the story of a Chinese American family's relationship while relating how Kai Ting learned to survive in a black San Francisco slum in the 1950s.

A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.