The Cutthroat
An Isaac Bell Adventure
(Sprache: Englisch)
The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell finds her murdered body instead. But Anna was...
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The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell finds her murdered body instead. But Anna was not alone in her fate. Bell may be on the hunt for the greatest monster of all time.
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Isaac Bell may be on the hunt for the greatest monster of all time in this riveting action-adventure novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler.The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this.
Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna Pape was not alone in her fate petite young blond women like Anna are being murdered in cities across America.
And the pattern goes beyond the physical resemblance of the victims there are disturbing familiarities about the killings themselves that send a chill through even a man as experienced with evil as Bell. If he is right about his fears, then he is on the trail of one of the greatest monsters of his time.
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PROLOGUEnew york, autumn 1910
Medick is dead!
Jackson Barrett crashed through John Buchanan s dressing room door, waving the Cognac bottle they kept for opening nights and bankable reviews.
Buchanan was blacking his face for tonight s Othello his Moor, opposite Barrett s Iago. He tossed his greasepaint stick with a jubilant, Best news we ve had in a year!
Nothing personal against Medick. That workman-like actor had struck it rich playing the dual title roles in the old Mansfield Sullivan dramatization of Robert Louis Stevenson s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But his sudden death left the gold mine up for grabs, and they had a scheme to grab it with an all-new, modernized Jekyll and Hyde that would clean up on Broadway and launch the richest cross-country tour since Ben-Hur.
They banged glasses and thundered toasts.
Barrett and Buchanan .. . .
Present . . .
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde!
The brandy barely wet their lips. They worked too hard managing the Barrett & Buchanan Theater Company to be drinking men, and their temperate habits kept them ruggedly youthful. Tall and broad-shouldered Lofty of stature, in the words of the New York Sun critic pinned above Buchanan s mirror they bounded onstage like athletes a decade younger than their forties. Jackson Barrett was fair; John Buchanan, his near twin, was slightly darker, his hair more sandy than Barrett s golden locks. Both shimmered with the glow of stardom, and their intense blue eyes famously pierced women s hearts in the back row of the highest balcony. The ladies husbands rated Jackson Barrett and John Buchanan as hearty men s men fellows they could trust.
I ve been thinking . . . said Barrett.
Never a good
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sign, said Buchanan.
What do you say we switch our roles back and forth keep em guessing who s who. First night, I m Jekyll, and
Next night, you re Hyde. Sells tickets, and might even keep you from getting stale.
Sells even more if we can talk Isabella Cook back on the stage.
Rufus Oppenheim will never allow her.
Isabella Cook s husband held the controlling interest in the Theatrical Syndicate, a booking trust with an iron-claw grip on seven hundred top theaters around the country. You could not tour first class without Rufus Oppenheim s syndicate, and you paid through the nose for the privilege.
Why did the most beautiful actress on Broadway marry the spitting image of a bald bear smoking a cigar?
Money.
She would never go with us even if Oppenheim let her, said Buchanan. There s no Jekyll and Hyde role big enough for the Great and Beloved Isabella.
Actually, said Barrett, I ve been tinkering with the manuscript.
How? Buchanan asked sharply, not pleased.
I wrote a new role for Miss Great and Beloved the beautiful heiress Gabriella Utterson which makes her central to the plot. Gabriella sets her cap for our handsome young Jekyll. The audience sees the evil Hyde through her eyes and fears for her.
Buchanan understood immediately. His partner had gone off half cocked, per usual, but rewriting Robert Louis Stevenson s stuffed-shirt narrator into a beautiful leading
What do you say we switch our roles back and forth keep em guessing who s who. First night, I m Jekyll, and
Next night, you re Hyde. Sells tickets, and might even keep you from getting stale.
Sells even more if we can talk Isabella Cook back on the stage.
Rufus Oppenheim will never allow her.
Isabella Cook s husband held the controlling interest in the Theatrical Syndicate, a booking trust with an iron-claw grip on seven hundred top theaters around the country. You could not tour first class without Rufus Oppenheim s syndicate, and you paid through the nose for the privilege.
Why did the most beautiful actress on Broadway marry the spitting image of a bald bear smoking a cigar?
Money.
She would never go with us even if Oppenheim let her, said Buchanan. There s no Jekyll and Hyde role big enough for the Great and Beloved Isabella.
Actually, said Barrett, I ve been tinkering with the manuscript.
How? Buchanan asked sharply, not pleased.
I wrote a new role for Miss Great and Beloved the beautiful heiress Gabriella Utterson which makes her central to the plot. Gabriella sets her cap for our handsome young Jekyll. The audience sees the evil Hyde through her eyes and fears for her.
Buchanan understood immediately. His partner had gone off half cocked, per usual, but rewriting Robert Louis Stevenson s stuffed-shirt narrator into a beautiful leading
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Autoren-Porträt von Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
Clive Cussler is the author of more than fifty books in five bestselling series, including Dirk Pitt, NUMA Files, Oregon Files, Isaac Bell, and Fargo. His life nearly parallels that of his hero Dirk Pitt. Whether searching for lost aircraft or leading expeditions to find famous shipwrecks, he and his NUMA crew of volunteers have discovered more than seventy-five lost ships of historic significance, including the long-lost Confederate submarine Hunley, which was raised in 2000 with much press publicity. Like Pitt, Cussler collects classic automobiles. His collection features more than eighty examples of custom coachwork. Cussler lives in Arizona and Colorado.Justin Scott is the author of thirty-one novels, including The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle; the Ben Abbott detective series; six thrillers under his pen name Paul Garrison; and his coauthorship with Cussler of The Wrecker, The Spy, The Race, The Thief, The Striker, The Bootlegger, The Assassin, The Gangster, and The Cutthroat. Scott lives in Connecticut.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Clive Cussler , Justin Scott
- 2017, Internationale Ausgabe, 400 Seiten, Maße: 15,1 x 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 0735215707
- ISBN-13: 9780735215702
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.03.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Praise for the Isaac Bell NovelsCussler and Scott have written another wonderful page-turner. This is historical action-adventure fiction at its rip-roaring best! Library Journal (starred review)
As always in this series, the novel is very exciting, with excellent pacing and some very well-drawn characters. Cussler is a perennial A-lister, popularity-wise, and his Isaac Bell novels are the pick of his prodigious litter. Booklist
The Isaac Bell series is a fun jaunt into America s past and the books are a wonderful examination of life in the early twentieth century. Associated Press
The Assassin is...action-movie-paced entertainment. Kirkus Reviews
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