The Vaults

By Toby Ball
(St. Martin's Press, Hardcover, 9780312580735, 320pp.)

Publication Date: September 14, 2010

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover

Categories: Mystery & Detective - General

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In a dystopian 1930s America, a chilling series of events leads three men down a path to uncover their city's darkest secret.

At the height of the most corrupt administration in the City’s history, a mysterious duplicate file is discovered deep within the Vaults---a cavernous hall containing all of the municipal criminal justice records of the last seventy years. From here, the story follows: Arthur Puskis, the Vault’s sole, hermit-like archivist with an almost mystical faith in a system to which he has devoted his life; Frank Frings, a high-profile investigative journalist with a self-medicating reefer habit; and Ethan Poole, a socialist private eye with a penchant for blackmail.

All three men will undertake their own investigations into the dark past and uncertain future of the City---calling into question whether their most basic beliefs can be maintained in a climate of overwhelming corruption and conspiracy




About the Author

TOBY BALL works at the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. The Vaults is his first novel.

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