Search Results: the high constable by meyers maan pseudonym

New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1994. 1st edition, September 1994, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Two-page map of the City of New York, 1808. The third historical mystery, after The Kingsbridge Plot , in the saga of New York's Tonneman family. A "New-York" city official and a cashbox vanish; bodies are found, and suspects are trailed, questioned and occasionally beaten before the story is gorily resolved, almost by accident. Each chapter begins with a reproduction of an actual newspaper ad, and one scene cameos DeWitt Clinton, Washington Irving, Lorenzo da Ponte (Mozart's erstwhile librettist) and Clement Moore. Aaron Burr appears briefly. Gangs roam the poorer streets of the city, which, we're repeatedly told, ends at "Chambers-Street.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York:: Doubleday,, 1994.. First edition -. Near fine in printed gold wrappers.. Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) An historical mystery set in New York City in the winter of 1808.