Steel Ashes

STEEL ASHES In 1905 Pittsburgh, the burning of a run-down tenement—and the resultant deaths of two poor immigrants—barely made the evening papers. But there were two courageous figures who refused to let these murders go unsolved. One was Milo Kachigan, a detective who moved up the ranks of Pittsburgh's Irish police force by concealing his Armenian background. The other was Helen Sorby, a vibrant young political leader and tireless social worker to the city's immigrant poor. Milo and Helen suspected that the murders were linked to the victims' socialist views. But leads were scarce and the…