Incredibly thrilling! Incredibly good! May favorite mysteries seem to be those based in historical eras and on historical fact. This author really knows how to weave a darn good yarn and gives the reader several hints as to who the murderer is as the novel roars to an exciting climax.

It's the World's Fair in Chicago and in the shadow of the newly developed and widely promoted ferris wheel murder after murder is committed. Does it diminish attendance at the exposition? Of course not. It increases traffic as the CPD tries its hardest to find and arrest the murderer. His victims come closer and closer to Ransom, one of CPDs finest whose reputation is touted throughout the city. Would that his reputation be as admired by his superior who seeks only to "catch" Ransom working outside the law he has sworn to protect. Caught between his dedication to this case and the warnings that he must beware of his supervisor, Ransom storms ahead to investigate each murder until at last he figures it out. The best clue comes to him after his best friend, freelance photographer, Philo Keane is arrested for the murders. Preposterous! How he does it remains for the reader to discover.

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