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Edgar Award Winning Series #3
St. Martin's Minotaur
June 2011
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Featuring: Alistair Sinclair; Detective Simon Ziele
400 pages
ISBN: 0312583974
EAN: 9780312583972
Hardcover
$24.99
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Thriller Crime | Suspense True Crime
The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon
Ziele’s jurisdiction in more ways than one. It’s high
profile
enough to command the attention of the notorious new police
commissioner, since Judge Jackson was presiding over the
sensationalist trial of Al Drayson. Drayson, an anarchist,
set
off a bomb at a Carnegie wedding, but instead of killing
millionaires, it killed passersby, including a child. Furthermore, Simon’s assigned precinct on Manhattan’s west
side includes the gritty Tenderloin but not the tonier
Gramercy
Park, which is where the judge is found in his locked
townhouse
with his throat slashed on the night before the jury is set
to
deliberate. But his widow insists on calling her husband’s
old
classmate criminologist Alistair Sinclair, who in turn
enlists
Ziele’s help. Together they must steer Sinclair’s unorthodox
methods past a police force that is so focused on rounding
up
Drayson’s supporters that they’ve all but rejected any other
possibilities. Once again, Pintoff ’s combination of vital
characterizations
and a fascinating case set amongst the sometimes brutal and
sometimes glittering history of turn-of-the-century New York
makes for totally compelling reading.
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