03633cam a2200409 i 4500 1545850912 TxAuBib 20240101120000.0 010307s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2001020712 9780684849041 0684849046 9780671019549 0671019546 9780743224031 0743224035 (OCoLC)46564923 DLC eng rda DLC IXA BAKER BTCTA YDXCP BNO O2H CNAHP OCLCF P4I B@L T7F LEPLL AW3 FSIMP OCLCO OCL LF8 TXMAR OCLCQ OCLCO PX9 O2C MLM LMJ TL4 OCLCQ OCLCO AZZPT WYG UTP NZAUC OCLCO JX9 ZQP TXUPP OCLCO OCL O2L WZW TxAuBib rda Fairstein, Linda A, author. The deadhouse : a novel / Linda Fairstein. New York : Scribner, [2001] ©2001. 414 pages : map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Alexandra Cooper series "One of the most haunting buildings in New York City, and perhaps the most dramatically beautiful, the Deadhouse sits on a small island in the middle of the East River. The abandoned structure, like the ghostly remains of a castle, plays in the imagination as a site of mystery and intrigue...a likely place for murder. Following on the bestselling success of Cold Hit, Likely to Die, and Final Jeopardy, top Manhattan sex crimes DA Linda Fairstein brings her unique blend of authenticity and style to a mesmerizing tale of murder and deceit. It's the hoilday season but there's little reason for cheer at one of New York's most elite colleges. A respected professor is dead; strangled and dumped in an elevator shaft. Lola Dakota's lifeless fingers clutch a few strands of hair, and a piece of paper in her pocket reads "The Deadhouse". What brought a distinguished academic to such a tragic end? Opportunistic murder seems unlikely as assistant DA Alexandra Cooper, working with detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, uncovers a distressing pattern of betrayal and terror. There's proof that Lola's husband, Ivan, wanted her dead. He has an alibi, but could he have hired a killer? Or could one of Lola's colleagues have erupted into unexpected violence? Some of their stories don't quite ring true. And why did Lola have a photograph of twenty-year-old Charlotte Voight pinned to her office bulletin board? Charlotte left her dorm room eight months ago and vanished into the night. Is she dead? Could she and Lola have become victims of the same predator? Perhaps most puzzling of all are the words "The Deadhouse". What was Lola's connection to this desolate place where people once endured slow and agonizing deaths? And what danger awaits Alex there or on the streets of Manhattan as she targets Lola's killer? A richly nuanced synthesis of history and suspense, The Deadhouse defines Linda Fairstein's immense talent as never before"--pages 2-3 of cover. Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper investigates the murder of Manhattan professor Lola Dakota, a crime whose only clue lies in "The Deadhouse," the Roosevelt Island site where smallpox patients were sent to die in the nineteenth century. 20240101. Cooper, Alexandra Fictitious character Fiction. Public prosecutors Fiction. Women lawyers Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft Alexandra Cooper series.