9780999762165. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 264. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 264 p. Gaslamp Gothic, 5.
A poisonous secret.
A terrifying curse.
And a client she'd just as soon see dead in a ditch.... Summer 1889. Harrison Fearing Pell hoped for adventure when she signed on with the Society for Psychical Research as an occult investigator. Slogging through New York's sewers in pursuit of a "mud man" wasn't
exactly what she had in mind. But the reeking monster terrorizing the dance halls of the Tenderloin leads her to an even more peculiar mystery - and the last man on earth Harry wishes to become entangled with.
James Moran is a prodigy in music, mathematics . . . and crime. Harry's older sister, the famed detective Myrtle Fearing Pell, has vowed to put him behind bars. But Harry owes Moran a personal debt, so when he demands her aid she can hardly refuse. It turns out that the brilliant black sheep of New York Society is part of a secret club at Columbia College whose members have started dying in bizarre ways that may not be accidents.
Thus begins one of the strangest cases of Harry's career, a tale of murder, cold-blooded revenge and fairytale bogeymen to make the Brothers Grimm shudder. As the bodies pile up, each preceded by sightings of the victim's doppelg�nger, Harry and her stalwart friend John Weston must race against time to save a man who arguably deserves his macabre fate.
