The letter writer

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Title:

The letter writer

Author:

Fesperman, Dan, 1955- author.

Edition:

First Edition.

Publication Date:

2016

Publication Information:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.

Physical Description:

371 pages ; 25 cm

ISBN:

9781101875063

Abstract:

Taking a job with the NYPD four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a former small-town cop investigates the discovery of a body in the Hudson with the assistance of a mysterious, well-educated man who has uncanny knowledge of the city and its denizens.

General Note:

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Subject Term:

City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.

Conspiracies -- Fiction.

Immigrants -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Nineteen forties -- Fiction.

Organized crime -- Fiction.

Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.

Police misconduct -- Fiction.

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