Murphy is called back into action by President Arthur to help the New York City police catch a serial killer. In New York, Murphy is reunited with his old friend Melvin Knoop, a Pinkerton agent. Half a dozen men have been murdered so far, all with no apparent connection to each other. When another man is found murdered, the city panics. Murphy and Knoop make a startling discovery that links all the victims together.

A study in terror: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson set out to bring down the notorious Jack the Ripper. Sherlock Holmes & the leading lady: Holmes must prevent the assassination of Emperor Franz Joseph. Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls: The world's most famous diamond, the Star of Africa, goes missing aboard the Orient Express. A study in scarlet: Members of a secret society are dying at an alarming pace. The sign of four: Holmes must penetrate...

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americab2ss rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who,...

"One player assumes the role of Jack the Ripper while the other players assume the roles of detectives pursuing him in Victorian London. Jack the Ripper must outmaneuver the detectives in the tangled sheets of the Whitechapel District to escape after committing his horrible murders. Meanwhile, the detectives must use clever deduction and their superior numbers to hunt Jack the Ripper down before he can kill again or elude them forever. Will history's...

The poet: "Our hero is Jack McEvoy, a Rocky Mountain News crime-beat reporter. As the novel opens, Jack's twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has just killed himself. Or so it seems. But when Jack begins to investigate the phenomenon of police suicides, a disturbing pattern emerges, and soon suspects that a serial murderer is at work--a devious cop killer who's left a coast-to-coast trail of 'suicide notes' drawn from the poems of Edgar Allan...