Bibliograph

Hot time, a mystery, W.H. Flint

Type

Label

Hot time, a mystery, W.H. Flint

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Hot time

Oclc number

1305201224

Responsibility statement

W.H. Flint

Sub title

a mystery

Summary

"New York, August 1896. A "hot wave" has settled on the city with no end in sight, leaving tempers short and the streets littered with dead horses felled by the heat. At Police Headquarters, the gruff, politically ambitious commissioner Theodore Roosevelt has been struggling to reform his notoriously corrupt department. Meanwhile, the yellow press is ready to pounce on the peccadilloes of the Four Hundred, the city's social elite--the better to sell papers with lurid stories and gossip or perhaps profit from a little blackmail on the side. When the body of Town Topics publisher William d'Alton Mann is found at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, any number of his ink-spattered victims may have a motive"--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

Classification