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Minotaur Books
November 2006
Featuring: Hanno Stiffeniis
400 pages
ISBN: 0312349947
Hardcover
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Mystery Historical
At the dawn of the Enlightenment, criminal justice had only begun to evolve into a science. In this historical detective work, Detective Hanno Stiffeniis arrives in the city of Konigsberg to assist in finding the culprit in an enigmatic string of murders. Are the deaths part of a plot formed by Napoleon's spies to undermine the Prussian king, or the work of a solitary, un¬known killer? The case - would seem unsolvable, were it not for the assistance and unmatched intellect of his mentor, Immanuel Kant. It has been years since Kant published his landmark philosophical work, Critique of Pure Reason, bringing him fame throughout Europe and making him Konigsberg's best-known citizen. But now, Kant must apply his theories not to the mind of the average man, but to mind of a serial killer. Together the young detective and the elderly, eccentric philosopher try to track down the killer who has the city held by the throat.
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