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Review title: hoping for a terrifying romp I found predictability.
Product review: Beginning with great promise and drama at the funeral of President Teddy, I was quickly drawn into this well researched historical novel. Carr is best when he sets the mood of an East Village tenement in 1896, or sending his detectives through the horrors of Bellevue. However, his murder mystery and character development became sorrowfully predictable after a few chapters. An excellent reference for turn-of-the-century amateur NYC historians, but a disappoiting novel--in fairness, I read this book immedaitely after CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, a work hard to shine against in its dark, complex wanderings through a schismatic mind
