- History, Supernatural, Imaginary creatures, Mystery and detective stories
When dinosaur bones from a recent dig mysteriously go missing, and an unidentifiable beast starts attacking animals and people, leaving their mangled bodies behind, Abigail and her eccentric employer R. F. Jackaby, investigators of the supernatural in 1892 New England, find themselves hunting for a thief, a monster, and a murderer.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, plot-driven and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- William Ritter
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 308
- Publisher
- Algonquin, Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781616203542
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