The Manhattan Island Clubs: A Novel
Books / Paperback
Books › Fiction › Mystery & Detective › General
ISBN: 0312303599 / Publisher: Minotaur Books, August 2004
When a distinguished member of the prestigious Metropolitan Club is found murdered in 1906 New York, founding member J.P. Morgan hires nemesis sheriff John Le Brun, who enters the world of the elite and powerful to solve the crime. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Read More
In the summer of 1906, a member of the Metropolitan Club - one of New York's most prestigious and powerful men's clubs - is brutally murdered within its walls. The man eyewitnesses claim committed the crime was, in actuality, across town in plain view of a hundred reliable witnesses at the time of the murder. For J. P. Morgan, founding member of the Metropolitan Club, there is only one man who can be entrusted with the swift and proper resolution of this impossible crime -- Sheriff John Le Brun of Jekyl Island, Georgia. Thrust in the midst of Manhattan's social and intellectual elite - including actor William Gillette, newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer, and financial colossal J. P. Morgan himself - Le Brun finds himself in a deadly struggle and race against time with an unseen foe, a mind perhaps as nimble as his own.
Read Less