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Language English Publication date September 1997 ISBN 0-679-43532-8 Page count 629 (hardcover) Country United States of America | 3.9/5 Goodreads Publisher Random House Inc Pages 629 (hardcover) Originally published September 1997 Preceded by The Alienist Genre Crime Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardcover, paperback) Similar Caleb Carr books, Murder books, Crime Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Angel of Darkness is a 1997 crime novel by Caleb Carr that was published by Random House (ISBN 0-7515-2275-9) and is a sequel to The Alienist (1994), and is the second book in the Kreizler series.
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Plot summary
The now-adult Stevie Taggert, a tobacconist, makes a bet with an elderly John Moore that he can write the story of one of their adventures together as well as Moore (a former newspaper reporter) could.
Set in 1897, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler's associate, Sara Howard, now a private detective, comes to him for help in locating Ana Linares, the kidnapped infant daughter of a visiting Spanish dignitary. The mystery is complicated by rising tensions between Spain and the United States, and war in Cuba seems inevitable. Kreizler re-convenes his old "team": Sara, John, NYPD detectives and forensic specialists Marcus and Lucius Isaacson, and Kreizler's faithful servants, Stevie and Cyrus. Their search for the missing child leads them to contact with an enigmatic woman with a murderous past, who enjoys the protection of the Hudson Dusters, a notorious gang.