Ron Ebest: A Murder in the Human Zoo, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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It is 1904, and the St. Louis World's Fair features a zoo of three thousand human "specimens" gathered from four continents. Among them are the Negrito, Filipino tribesmen that anthropologists call half-human, half-ape "missing links." When a spectator kills a tribesman, defense attorneys raise a harrowing question: Can a person be convicted of murder if science says the victim is not a human being?

Ned McDaniel and Emma Churchill, reporters for a muckraking St. Louis newspaper, stumble upon a series of macabre murders. Their investigation leads to a deranged family, to bizarre quasi-scientific experiments, to a terrifying disease of unknown origin--and to the Negrito tribesmen.

These two threads merge in A Murder in the Human Zoo, a story of murder and madness at the dawn of the modern scientific age.