Cabinet of Curiosities
Some people have skeletons in the closet; New York has a whole tunnel full of them…
Special Agent Pendergast of the FBI's New Orleans field office is sometimes mistaken for an undertaker due to his appearance, which, in light of his next New York case, seems quite fitting. At the construction site of a future skyscraper, workers discover a cellar tunnel with carefully walled-up niches concealing the skeletons of thirty-six murdered young men and women. The figurative league table of the greatest killers in the USA suddenly has a new front-runner – a doctor who, more than a hundred years ago, sought to prolong his life through inhuman experiments. However, just as the eccentric Southern investigator, with the help of archaeologist Nora Kelly from the New York Museum of Natural History, begins to piece together the horrifying story from the late 19th century, a murderer starts rampaging in the area, leaving surgically mutilated corpses in their wake…
The third thrilling case for the enigmatic and extraordinarily intelligent FBI agent whose methods may be unconventional but have one undeniable advantage – they work.
What they wrote about the book:
Preston and Child continue to weave stories that are engaging, imaginative and highly addictive.
- Bookreporter.com
Thanks to the breathtaking locations, colourful characters, apt observations on municipal politics and museum operations, interesting motifs from a range of scientific fields, and a plethora of thrilling scenes, it's a great recreational read – at times terrifying, continuously entertaining.
- Publishers Weekly
Douglas Preston
(* 1956) An author and journalist, he comes from Cambridge, Massachusetts. After graduating, he did not get into his dream university, Stanford, so he settled for an education at Claremont University, where he studied mathematics, physics, English, biology, and chemistry. Thanks to his comprehensive knowledge, he secured an editorial position at the New York Museum of Natural History, where he also wrote his first book: a treatise on dinosaurs, which led to him meeting Lincoln Child. What was originally a one-off collaboration sparked the idea for the first thriller in the series about FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast. Together since 1986, they have created not only 22 novels featuring this hero, but also other series like Gideon Crew, Ice Limit, and the Nora Kelly novel cycle. His popular science articles are regularly published by The New Yorker and elite monthlies like National Geographic and The Atlantic. His book, The Lost City of the Monkey God, became a New York Times bestseller in 2017. A recipient of many genre and industry awards, he currently serves as president of the professional organisation Authors United.
Lincoln Child
(* 1957) A native of Connecticut, he showed an interest in literature from childhood. After graduating with a degree in English from the University of Minnesota, he got a job as an editor at the New York publishing house St. Martin's Press, which he left in 1987 for a programmer position at MetLife. Through his editorial practice, he met Douglas Preston, and after reading his treatise on dinosaurs, he suggested that Preston try to use the museum setting in a fictional role as well. Thus, the character of Aloysius Pendergast was born: a federal agent investigating unusual crimes. They began writing novels as a team, and after a few years, Child left his job as a systems engineer to devote himself to writing full-time. In addition to their joint projects, he has also written several of his own mystery thrillers in which the hero, Jeremy Logan, delves into other inexplicable mysteries.
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