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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:The Cabinet of Curiositiesby Douglas Preston
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Weird happenings at NYC's Museum of Natural History follow the discovery of a 19th-century, mass grave. Spines cut from corpses. Impalements on dinosaur horns. It's all frightful enough to rouse the FBI's quirkiest investigator — the pale, enigmatic, ingenious Agent Pendergast. The chase is soon afoot. This fast, forensic-filled thriller blends history and horror into a perfect summer distraction. Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have taken us from a pirate's island fortress (Riptide) to the ancient lost city of the Anasazi Indians (Thunderhead) to the edge of the world and beyond (The Ice Limit). Now they return to the famous New York Museum of Natural History, the setting for their classic bestseller, The Relic. For the museum cloaks a terrifying secret of the past, not out of the Amazonian jungles or the depths of Africa, but from New York City itself...
In nineteenth-century New York, the public flocked to collections of strange and grotesque oddities called "cabinets of curiosities." Now, in lower Manhattan, a modern apartment tower is slated to rise on the site of one of the old cabinets. But when the excavators break into a basement, they uncover a charnel pit of horror: the remains of thirty-six people murdered and gruesomely dismembered over 130 years ago by an unknown serial killer. In the aftermath, Museum archaeologist Nora Kelly is visited by an enigmatic, silver-eyed FBI agent who is obsessed with the mystery of the bodies. Together, Special Agent Pendergast and Nora Kelly embark on an investigation that will take them from the gleaming skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan to the crumbling archives of the Museum, from a mass grave under a Chinatown brownstone to a house of abominations on Riverside Drive. Their search unearths the faint whisper of a mysterious doctor who once roamed the city...a genius who carried out medical experiments on living human beings. But just as Nora and Pendergast begin to unravel the clues to the century-old killings, a fresh spree of murder and surgical mutilation erupts around them...and New York City is awash in terror. Fast-paced and filled with the brilliant scientific details that have become the trademark of Preston/Child novels, The Cabinet of Curiosities presents readers with the duo's most delicious conundrum — and most gripping read — to date. Review:"Featuring fabulous locales, colorful characters, pointed riffs on city and museum politics, cool forensic and paleontological speculation and several gripping set pieces including an extended white-knuckle climax, this a great beach novel, at times gruesome, always fun: Preston-Child at the top of their game." Publishers Weekly Review:"This adventure has all the elements of the perfect summer read: the wonderfully spooky atmosphere, the dogged reporter smitten with the lovely scientist, and the mysteriously prescient FBI agent. Authors Preston and Child have been hot since Relic, and here they score another big winner." Library Journal Synopsis:In downtown Manhattan, a gruesome discovery has just been made — an underground charnel house containing the bones of dozens of murder victims. Research reveals that a serial killer was at work in New York's notorious Five Points neighborhood in the 1880s, bent on prolonging his lifespan by any means. When a newspaper story on the old murders appears to ignite a new series of horrifyingly similar killings, panic overtakes New York City. Now, FBI agent Pendergast, journalist Bill Smithback, and archaeologist Nora Kelly join forces to protect themselves from a vicious killer...before they become the next victims. Synopsis:A gruesome discovery has just been made in Manhattan - a cache of the bones of dozens of murder victims. Evidently a serial killer operated in New York's notorious Five Points neighbourhood in the 1880s. Then a news story on the old murders appears to ignite a fresh series of similar killings. Synopsis:In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are thirty-six bodies?all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago. While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city. The nightmare has begun. Again. About the AuthorDouglas Preston and Lincoln Child are the coauthors of the bestselling novels The Relic, Mount Dragon, Reliquary, and Riptide.
Douglas Preston worked for the American Museum of Natural History, is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and in 1989 retraced Coronado's thousand-mile odyssey on horseback. Lincoln Child is a former book editor at St. Martin's Press and has published numerous short-story anthologies. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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