- Fiction, Serial murders, Mystery fiction, Historical fiction
The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Caleb Carr
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 588
- Publisher
- Bantam, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Bantam Books
- Editions
- 46
- Language
- Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780751593570
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