High Constable by 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 Meyers's previous mystery, The Kingsbridge Plot, is now past sixty. Surely this should be a time to contemplate retirement and enjoy the pleasures of life with his beloved wife, Mariana, and their three children. 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. The corpse, fear for his son, and a long-buried skull draw John Tonneman into another murder, as he joins his friend Jake Hays, High Constable of the City of New-York, in trying to track down the killer-or killers. What begins as a potential tragedy for the Tonneman family ultimately draws them closer together: young Peter finds his true calling in police work and his true love in Jake Hays's lovely widowed cousin; John finds the solution to a pair of murders more than thirty years old; and Mariana and John rediscover one another. The High Constable delivers not only an intricately plotted mystery but also a vivid glimpse of historical New-York and a fully drawn portrait of complex family relationships.
Critically acclaimed author of The Dutchman and The High Constable, Maan Meyers returns with an exciting new mystery combining history, murder, and mayhem in a vivid portrait of New York City of yesteryear. In The House on Mulberry Street, Maan Meyers weaves yet another uniquely intricate, excitingly atmospheric Tonneman mystery, a vivid and fascinating slice of history with a timely twist and a tantalizing freshness. THE CRITICS LOVE THE HISTORICAL MYSTERIES OF MAAN MEYERS OUTSTANDING. -Rendezvous PART FICTION, PART FACT, AND WHOLLY ENTERTAINING... VIVIDLY TRUE TO ITS PERIOD. -Publishers Weekly AN EXCITING TALE OF MYSTERY, HISTORY, AND ROMANCE, INDEED A WONDERFUL COMBINATION. -Romantic Times VIVIDLY RE-CREATES THE SIGHTS, SOUNDS, AND SMELLS OF [NEW YORK] IN 1664... FANS OF HISTORICAL MYSTERIES SHOULD RELISH THIS CAPTIVATING NOVEL. -The Sun, Baltimore AN ALTOGETHER ENJOYABLE STORY. -Mostly Murder A GRAND MELODRAMA OF EARLY AMERICA THAT EVOKES THE SETTING OF OLD NEW AMSTERDAM AT ITS MOST INTRIGUING. -The Denver Post AN AUTHENTIC AND SUSPENSEFUL PERIOD PIECE. -Booklist ANNETTE AND MARTIN MEYERS HAVE DONE THEIR HISTORY HOMEWORK....RICH IN PECULIAR DETAILS. -Fresh Air, National Public Radio
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385469845 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385469845 |
| Titel | High Constable |
| Autor | Maan Meyers |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Doubleday Books |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1994-08-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 307 |
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