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The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
Gotham
August 2010
On Sale: August 10, 2010
448 pages
ISBN: 1592401422
EAN: 9781592401420
Hardcover
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Thrilling, true tales from the Vidocq Society, a team of the
world's finest forensic investigators whose monthly gourmet
lunches lead to justice in ice-cold murders Three of the greatest detectives in the world--a renowned
FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor and lothario who
speaks to the dead, and an eccentric profiler known as "the
living Sherlock Holmes"-were heartsick over the growing tide
of unsolved murders. Good friends and sometime rivals
William Fleisher, Frank Bender, and Richard Walter decided
one day over lunch that something had to be done, and
pledged themselves to a grand quest for justice. The three
men invited the greatest collection of forensic
investigators ever assembled, drawn from five continents, to
the Downtown Club in Philadelphia to begin an audacious
quest: to bring the coldest killers in the world to an
accounting. Named for the first modern detective, the
Parisian eugène François Vidocq-the flamboyant Napoleonic
real-life sleuth who inspired Sherlock Holmes-the Vidocq
Society meets monthly in its secretive chambers to solve a
cold murder over a gourmet lunch. The Murder Room draws the reader into a chilling, darkly
humorous, awe-inspiring world as the three partners travel
far from their Victorian dining room to hunt the ruthless
killers of a millionaire's son, a serial killer who carves
off faces, and a child killer enjoying fifty years of
freedom and dark fantasy. Acclaimed bestselling author Michael Capuzzo's brilliant
storytelling brings true crime to life more realistically
and vividly than it has ever been portrayed before. It is a
world of dazzlingly bright forensic science; true evil as
old as the Bible and dark as the pages of Dostoevsky; and a
group of flawed, passionate men and women, inspired by their
own wounded hearts to make a stand for truth, goodness, and
justice in a world gone mad.
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