Fatal Induction: A Professor Bradshaw Mystery (Professor Bradshaw Series)
Benjamin Bradshaw (A Spark of Death, 2011), professor of electrical engineering in Seattle, is working hard to win a competition to create a remote-access sound system for the Grand Theater. It is 1901, and President McKinley has just been assassinated, leaving the nation shocked and mourning. There is, however, a mystery closer to home that unfolds when Bradshaw discovers an abandoned peddler’s cart behind his house. It appears that a small child and her father were living in the cart. When Bradshaw learns that the child may be a murder witness, he begins searching for her in the seedy bars and brothels of Seattle’s underworld. As he investigates, he uncovers power struggles and corruption in the police department and decides to use his contest entry as a trap to catch the killer and protect his family. Bradshaw’s engineering and forensic skills offer readers a glimpse at life during the early twentieth century, including both the social unrest and the excitement over new scientific and technological discoveries. A fine choice for historical-mystery buffs. --Barbara Bibel--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.