Secret of the White Rose
A Novel
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4.3 • 9 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The third novel in the Edgar Award–winning detective series set in Gilded Age NYC is "guaranteed to grip readers to the very last page" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon Ziele's jurisdiction in more ways than one. For one, it's high-profile enough to command the attention of the notorious new police commissioner, since Judge Jackson was presiding over the sensational trial of Al Drayson. Drayson, an anarchist, set off a bomb at a Carnegie family wedding, but instead of killing millionaires, it killed passersby, including a child. The dramatic trial has captured the full attention of 1906 New York City.
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 town house 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.
Customer Reviews
Important
And thought-provoking. Vital for anyone interested in early twentieth- century American history.
Even if one had studied this era, one would not have remembered this much detail about those unsettled and dangerous times, or known such deep background.
I was surprised to learn that the author was a woman. Until I went back and saw the author’s name, I thought this was written by a man.
Well plotted, very intelligently so. Believable and skillfully drawn characters.
Well edited, without errors in grammar, punctuation, word usage, or spelling, as unfortunately found in most books.