Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
26.12.2025
Verlag
G.h ArthurSeitenzahl
182
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/14/1 cm
Gewicht
237 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798233234804
"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power." Thomas Kane has exposed factory owners, workhouse masters, and surgical elites. But now, the investigation turns inward, toward the very men sworn to uphold the law. When a midnight visitor brings word of a deliberate "pattern of silence" within the police force, Kane finds himself hunted by a "Crooked Detective"-a man who understands the power of the record just as well as Kane does, but uses it to erase rather than to reveal. This is no longer a battle of ledgers; it is a war for the soul of the city's institutions. Guided by the haunting legacy of the Eleanor Voss Archive and the escalating stakes of a legal battle that threatens to dismantle his work, Kane must decide if he is willing to become the very thing he loathes to secure a partial victory. From the damp cells of the precinct to the high-stakes confrontation that will define his career, The Crooked Detective pits archival truth against systematic perjury. In this sixth volume of the Thomas Kane Investigations, the coal district dawn feels further away than ever. But as the Archive grows and the evidence becomes undeniable, Kane proves that while power can hide the truth, it cannot delete the past. The Crooked Detective is a high-tension Victorian noir that explores the thin line between the investigator and the criminal, and the enduring necessity of the whistleblowers who refuse to let the record die.
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