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- Hardcover: 400 pages ;
Dimensions (in inches): 1.31 x 9.54 x 6.34
- Publisher: Scribner; ;
(January 21, 2003)
- ISBN: 0743223543
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One of the
special pleasures of this lively series,
written by a veteran sex-crimes investigator for the Manhattan
district attorney's office, is the unusual glimpse it gives
readers into corners of New York no tourist and few residents
ever see (The Deadhouse).
Here she turns her attention to the
city's major cultural edifices--the Metropolitan Museum, the
Museum of Natural History, and the Cloisters--and takes us
behind their sealed doors to investigate the murder of a
museum curator whose mummified body turns up in an ancient
sarcophagus just before it's shipped out of the country.
Together with her partners, cops
Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, assistant DA Alexandra Cooper
retraces Katrina Grooten's steps from her native South Africa
to the discovery of her remains on a New Jersey pier.
Along the way, the mysteries of the
ancient world get equal billing with the more contemporary
whodunit, and Cooper and her pals get a firsthand look at the
murderous New York art world, too.
Fairstein's thrillers offer an
in-depth tour of truly off-the-beaten-path Manhattan as well
as solid plotting, well-drawn characters, and snappy dialogue.
What the DA's office lost when the author retired to write
full-time is the mystery fan's biggest gain! --Jane Adams
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