This fictionalized recreation--peppered with authentic, sensational newspaper clippings and period details--provides an imaginative solution to the real-life murder of Helen Jewett, a stunning prostitute, in New York in 1836...
In 1857, lawyer-detective Lon Quincannon must confront a corrupt coroner, an unprincipled prosecutor, and an inept killer on the crooked streets of lower Manhattan as he searches for the killer of dentist Harvey Burdell...