Jackaby
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Jackaby
AUTHOR:
Ritter, William.
ISBN:
9781616205461
EDITION:
First Edition.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin, 2015.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
310 p. ; 21 cm
ABSTRACT:
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.
GEOGRAPHIC_TERM:
SUBJECT:
| Mystery and detective stories. |
| Serial murderers -- Fiction. |
| Murder -- Fiction. |
| Supernatural -- Fiction. |
| Imaginary creatures -- Fiction. |
| New England -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. |
BIBSUMMARY:
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.