From The Triangle Murders:
Did you know that the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 25, 1911 was for ninety years the deadliest workplace disaster in New York history? 146 people were killed in the fire, 140 identified victims, 6 unidentified.
A year before the hundredth anniversary of the fire I was visiting my hometown of New York City and staying in Greenwich Village. On my walks in the neighborhood, I came across the Asch Building (now the Brown Building at NYU) on Greene Street and Washington Place.
I read the plaque on the building. I was hooked. I wanted to know more about the fire, how it happened, why it happened and why so many people died. So I started to research the facts and fictionalize a story around the disaster. But like my other books, the mystery that took place in the past had to be solved today by modern technology.