The angel of darkness
By: Caleb Carr.
Edition: 1st trade ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 629
Subjects: Private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Serial murders -- Fiction; Psychologists -- Fiction; Criminal psychology -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Description: It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline.

Kreizler and his friends - high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime - have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara's aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war.

Their investigation leads the team to a shocking suspect: a woman who appears to the world to be a heroic nurse and a loving mother, but who may in reality be a ruthless murderer of children.
Notes: Maps of Mid-Manhattan and Lower Manhattan in 1897 on endpapers.