The Angel Of Darkness
Number 2 in series
$26.70
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
25 October 2011
Summary
A year after the events narrated in The Alienist, the cast of characters from that novel are again brought together to investigate a crime committed in the heady days of New York in the 1890s, but this time narrated by the orphan Stevie Taggert. A young child, the daughter of Spanish diplomats, disappears. It seems she has been abducted, but no ransom note is received, and the detectives Isaacson quickly discover that a nurse, Elspeth Hunter, is probably the kidnapper. They also disc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780751547276 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0751547271 |
| Author: | Caleb Carr |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 25 October 2011 |
| Weight: | 450g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 41mm |
| Series: | Laszlo Kreizler & John Schuyler Moore |
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The sureness of the historical sensibility elevates THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS above genre fiction
Carr’s follow-up to THE ALIENIST is just as good a read; a thrillingly macabre drive into the fetid depths of turn-of-the-century New York … A triumph of research, it is also a triumph of imagination, express and feeling… brilliantly maintains a ferocious grip. Mail on Sunday Quite enthralling … a novel with plays with but never insults the intelligence. The Times The sureness of the historical sensibility elevates THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS above genre fiction TLS Carr brings enormous gusto to his portrait of old New York… the city seems to rise off the page Independent on Sunday
About The Author
Caleb Carr
Caleb Carr was born in New England in 1951 and now lives in New York. He was a military historian, teaching at Columbia, before the success of his first novel enabled him to become a full-time writer.
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