The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City

Based on the unsolved 1909 murder of Elsie Sigel, the 'girl missionary' who was believed to have been murdered by Leon Ling, her jealous Chinese lover, this text explores the attempts by the public and police to monitor and regulate Chinese/white social and sexual relations in turn-of-the-century New York.