262 pages
English language
Published May 2, 1998 by University of California Press.
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When the Morton Street Slasher leaves the corpses of his victims on the tangled gaslit streets near San Francisco's Union Square, he marks each body with a playing card. Ambrose "Bitter" Bierce, the city's famed newspaperman, immediately blames the rash of murders on his sworn enemies, the Southern Pacific Railway magnates. Bierce and his young protege at the Hornet, Tom Redmond, set out to solve the case, uncovering conspiracy and corruption at every turn.
Subjects
- Bierce, Ambrose, -- 1842-1914? -- Fiction
- Journalists -- Fiction.
- Serial murders -- Fiction.
- Detective and mystery stories.
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.