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The Blackest Bird
The Blackest Bird
Author: Joel Rose
New York, the sweltering summer of 1841: Mary Rogers, a beautiful counter girl at a popular Manhattan tobacco shop, is found brutally murdered in the Hudson River. John Colt, scion of the firearm fortune, beats his publisher to death with a hatchet. And young Irish gang leader Tommy Coleman is accused of killing his daughter, his wife, and his w...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780385662406
ISBN-10: 0385662408
Publication Date: 3/11/2008
Pages: 480
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Publisher: Anchor Canada
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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High Constable Jacob Hayes is charged with solving three brutal murders in New York City in the summer of 1841. Gang wars, grave robbers and the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe figure in this tale of a simpler and darker time. Wonderful descriptive prose describes the corruption and politics, scandal and bawdy life, so real it seems plausible.


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