The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence

by Robin W. Winks (Editor)

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SOME SECRETS COME BACK TO HAUNT. OTHERS COME TO KILL. Justine Jones lived her life as a fearful hypochondriac until she was lured into the web of a mysterious mastermind named Packard, who gifts her with extraordinary mental powers--dooming her to fight Midcity's shadowy war on paranormal crime in order to find the peace she so desperately craves. But now serial killers with unheard-of skills are terrorizing the most powerful beings in Midcity, including mastermind Packard and his oldest show more friend and worst enemy, Midcity's new mayor, who has the ability to bend matter itself to his will. As the body count grows, Justine faces a crisis of conscience as she tests the limits of her new powers and faces an impossible choice between two flawed but brilliant men--one on a journey of redemption, the other descending into a pit of moral depravity. "From the Paperback edition." show less

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sterlingelanier 72 reviews

Superb analysis of what history is, is not and ways to examine it. SEL

Feb 19, 2015

Schmerguls 5,855 reviews

1853 The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence - Robin W. Winks, Editor (read 26 May 1984) This book is made up of essays and unrelated articles, and its net impact on me was little--as is often the case in a book written by many different persons.

Sep 16, 2008 (Edited)