The Cabinet of Curiosities: A Novel
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780759570450 (0759570450)
Publish date: July 1st 2002
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Edition language: English
Series: Pendergast (#3)
In the 19th century, New Yorkers flocked to collections of strange and grotesque oddities called "cabinets of curiosities." Now, in lower Manhattan, excavators uncover the remains of 36 people murdered and gruesomely dismembered over 130 years ago by an unknown serial killer... and similar killings ...
An otherwise excellent novel ended up plagued by a horrendous repetition of words within the last hundred pages. Everything the characters did was described by the authors as either "slowly" or "abruptly." I actually wanted to stop reading, the overused adverbs became so bad. Either the editor becam...
Without a doubt suspension of disbelief is required when reading this book. It is fairly ridiculous, but I was just happily swept along by this tale! Then again, I lap up all kinds of weird stuff (looking at you, Sasquatch), so maybe I'm just predisposed to liking off-the-wall stories like this on...
An otherwise excellent novel ended up plagued by a horrendous repetition of words within the last hundred pages. Everything the characters did was described by the authors as either "slowly" or "abruptly." I actually wanted to stop reading, the overused adverbs became so bad. Either the editor becam...
At a construction site in lower Manhattan, a tunnel is unearthed beneath an old tenement which is being knocked down. Inside the tunnel, workers find bones and remains of personal objects belonging to a total of 36 people. A mysterious southern FBI agent appears at the New York Museum of Natural His...
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