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The Blackest Bird

A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York

By Joel Rose

Hardcover | 9780393062311

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"Irresistibly seductive….Murder mystery, historical novel, portal to another time; The Blackest Bird is a masterpiece."—Anthony Bourdain

In the sweltering New York City summer of 1841, Mary Rogers, a popular counter girl at a tobacco shop in Manhattan, is found brutallContinue

"Irresistibly seductive….Murder mystery, historical novel, portal to another time; The Blackest Bird is a masterpiece."—Anthony Bourdain

In the sweltering New York City summer of 1841, Mary Rogers, a popular counter girl at a tobacco shop in Manhattan, is found brutally ravaged in the shallows of 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 wife's former lover. Charged with solving it all is High Constable Jacob Hays, the city's first detective. At the end of a long and distinguished career, Hays's investigation will ultimately span a decade, involving gang wars, grave robbers, and clues hidden in poems by the hopeless romantic and minstrel of the night: Edgar Allan Poe.

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    The Blackest Bird Joel Rose W.W. Norton Hardcover 464 pages March 2007 Mid-nineteenth century New York City is a mix of the cosmopolitan and the urban, the great robber barons, teeming immigrants, booming businesses, day laborers, gangs of leatherhea ... (read full critics)

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Hardcover 464 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0393062317
  • ISBN-13: 9780393062311
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton
  • Pub date: Mar 12, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1548 mm x 968 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: eBook
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