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Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr (1997, Hardcover)

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Item specifics

Condition
Very good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
ISBN
9780679435327

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679435328
ISBN-13
9780679435327
eBay Product ID (ePID)
813959

Product Key Features

Book Title
Angel of Darkness
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Thrillers / Suspense, General, Mystery & Detective / General, Historical
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Author
Caleb Carr
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
2 in
Item Weight
38.8 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-025063
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Synopsis
In The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew. It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends--high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime--have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara's aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Their investigation leads the team to a shocking suspect: a woman who appears to the world to be a heroic nurse and a loving mother, but who may in reality be a ruthless murderer of children. Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. As the horror unfolds, Delmonico's still serves up wondrous meals, and a summer trip to the elegant gambling parlors of Saratoga provides precious keys to the murderer's past. At the same time, we go on revealing journeys into Stevie's New York, a place where poor and neglected children--then as now--turn to crime  and drugs at shockingly early ages. Peppered throughout are characters taken from real life and rendered with historical vigor, including suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton; painter Albert Pinkham Ryder; and Clarence Darrow, who thunders for the defense in a tense courtroom drama during which the sanctity of American motherhood itself is put on trial. Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York.
LC Classification Number
PS3553.A76277A85

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  • Compelling reading that stands up to a yearly revisit.

    This and Caleb Carr’s The Alienist are go to mystery/detective novels with fascinating characters, a strong sense of its historical period — New York in the late 1890’s — and plots that are complex and adult in their subject matter of serial killers and their victims.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: coco6259

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    I read and listen too this book from the beginning to the end and I’m still setting on the edge of my chair. Boy Howdy, Mel

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: thrift.books

  • Motherhood on trial

    Great story, compelling, getting a hard covered book cheaper than a paperback is unbeatable

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  • As described but could have been packed better,plastic wrap cut open,book not damaged thankfully

    As described but could have been packed better,plastic wrap cut open,book not damaged thankfully

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: gently.loved.books

  • Great book well written worth the read

    Great book well written worth the read

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