1997 "First Trade Edition" stated on copyright page; Random House publishers, New York; larger hardbound book with charcoal black boards and gilt stamp lettering on cover and spine; inside cover maps of Lower Manhattan, 1897; very good condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket very good.
 
Description -
The Angel of Darkness is a 1997 crime novel by Caleb Carr that was published by Random House and is a sequel to The Alienist (1994), and is the second book in the Kreizler series.
 
Plot -
The now-adult Stevie Taggert, a tobacconist, makes a bet with an elderly John Moore that he can write the story of one of their adventures together as well as Moore (a former newspaper reporter) could.
 
Set in 1897, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler's associate, Sara Howard, now a private detective, comes to him for help in locating Ana Linares, the kidnapped infant daughter of a visiting Spanish dignitary. The mystery is complicated by rising tensions between Spain and the United States, and war in Cuba seems inevitable. Kreizler re-convenes his old "team": Sara, John, NYPD detectives and forensic specialists Marcus and Lucius Isaacson, and Kreizler's faithful servants, Stevie and Cyrus. Their search for the missing child leads them to contact with an enigmatic woman with a murderous past, who enjoys the protection of the Hudson Dusters, a notorious gang.