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On a remote jungle island, a scientist toys with cryogenics and brain transplants Horseshoe Island lies just a few miles off the coast of Baja California, Mexico-impossibly far from the laws of the United States. Here, a doctor named Hobbes has built his labs to perform experiments on bodies cryogenically frozen for two decades or longer. He plans to heal those whom the medicine of the past was helpless to save, and his experiments may hold the key to endless life-or eternal damnation. Earl show more Jazine, of the newly formed Computer Investigation Bureau, is sent to Horseshoe Island to investigate the good doctor. Posing as a photographer, he is invited to document the island's most audacious experiment yet-a brain transplant from a dead man's body to a healthy, living one. But when members of the research team begin disappearing, Jazine learns that on Horseshoe Island, there is no law-natural or unnatural-that cannot be broken by Dr. Hobbes. show lessTags
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Edward D. Hoch was the most ingenious of modern mystery writers. He was author of more than 900 short stories, winner of the Edgar Award, former President of the Mystery Writers of America, and contributor to every issue of Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine since 1973 until his death in 2008. As John Dickson Carr remarked, "Satan himself would be show more proud of his ingenuity." The introduction is by Janet Hutchings, editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. show less
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- Original title
- The Frankenstein Factory
- Original publication date
- 1975
- Important places
- Baja California, Mexico
- Original language
- English US
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- English, German, Italian
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- ISBNs
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- ASINs
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