Letters From A Murderer - Couverture souple

Matthews, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1909223360 ISBN 13 : 9781909223363

Editeur : Exhibit A, 2013

Synopsis

In 1891, it would take a new breed of cop to catch the most notorious killer of all time - The first in a series of hard-boiled New York Victorian mysteries, featuring Finley Jameson, an aristocratic intellectual English criminal profiler, and Joseph Argenti, a streetwise New York cop. New York, 1891: a rapidly changing city, torn between lamplight and electric light, where the burgeoning steel and railway industries attract a flood of humanity from every corner of the globe, fuelling cut-throat gangs, corruption and vice. A prostitute is found brutally murdered. Immediately fear starts to spread. The victim bears the same hallmarks as Jack the Ripper's recent killing spree in England. Could it be that the Ripper has crossed the Atlantic to fresh killing grounds? Or is this simply a copycat murder? To solve the case, one of the original English Ripper pathologists, Finley Jameson, is teamed up with Joseph Argenti, one of the new 'untouchable' detectives, hand-picked by a New York Mayor eager to fight corruption. But Michael Tierney, the city's leading gangster, has his own ideas about how the city should be run. And as the body-count rises, and Jameson & Argenti are taunted by the killer in open letters, they find themselves fighting not just to save the next victim, but for the city's very soul. If Arthur Conan Doyle had been asked to write a sequel to The Gangs of New York, then this would be it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Matthews was 26 when his first novel was published. His books span genres of crime, action, mystery and legal-thriller, though he has also penned two screenplays and a YA novel. His books have been translated into 12 languages with total sales over a million, with his biggest seller, Past Imperfect, included in a top ten all-time best legal thrillers list in The Times. He was one of only two British authors in the list

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Exhibit A
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1909223360
• ISBN 13: 9781909223363
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible