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"Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he'll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when Alter's best friend, Yakov, becomes the latest victim in a...
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"Does it take a monster to catch a monster? As a student, Francis Vincenti asked his mentor, former Chicago PD detective Thomas Aquinas Foster, if it took a monster to catch a monster. Foster, a man with a tortured soul and his own self-righteous brand of justice, didn't have an answer. Now a detective with a string of famous arrests under his belt, Vincenti is known as a cop with an uncanny insight into a killer's psyche. Until the Bricklayer of...
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"Chicago, rok 1918. Sierżant Teodor Rucki dopiero rozpoczyna karierę w policji, ale brak doświadczenia nadrabia ulicznym sprytem i szybkimi pięściami. W polskiej dzielnicy ktoś podrzuca bestialsko okaleczone zwłoki, a na płocie i w pobliskim kościele maluje farbą anarchistyczny napis. Rucki rozpoczyna śledztwo, które prowadzi go przez najbiedniejsze i najniebezpieczniejsze rejony miasta. Morderca zabija kolejne ofiary w okrutny i teatralny...
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Chicago. Jedna z najsurowszych zim od wielu lat. Pod powierzchnią zamarzniętego jeziora zostaje odkryte ciało nastolatki Elli Reynolds. Dziewczyna zaginęła trzy tygodnie temu, tylko że jezioro jest zamarznięte od kilku miesięcy-- Media uważają, że za porwaniem stoi seryjny morderca. Wkrótce giną kolejne ofiary. Instynkt detektywa Portera podpowiada mu, że sprawa jest początkiem czegoś bardzo złego.
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All the young men at the Siegel Cooper department store admire Georgiana Yoke, the charming new clerk just arrived in Chicago ahead of the 1893 World's Fair. They wager it won't take long for some lucky fellow to lure her away from her job, and they're right. After a brief and heady courtship, she marries a charismatic, wealthy entrepreneur. A happy ending, but for one catch. Georgiana's affectionate new husband, Dr. Henry H. Holmes, is also a swindler,...
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