The High Constable Author:Maan Meyers It is the Winter of 1808. Thomas Jefferson is President. John Tonneman, the young physician whose involvement with murder was the basis for Maan Meyer's previous mystery, "The Kingsbridge Plot", is now past 60. Surely this should be a time to contemplate retirement and enjoy the pleasures of life with his beloved wife, Mariana, and their three c... more »hildren.
But Mariana is unaccountably angry and irritable, and their eldest, Peter, is restless, rebellious, and drinking too much. Then a corpse is discovered in the Collect -- the pond that had for so long delivered fresh, sweet water to the residents of New York. Peter's boss, the Controller of the Collect Company, has disappeared, as has Peter himself. And there's cash missing as well...« less