<p>November, 1910. Asbury Park, N.J. Ten-year-old Marie Smith is brutally murdered. After days of investigation, Asbury Park and county officials are at their wits end in their attempt to pin the crime on two suspects, one black, one white. Finally the authorities decide to call in the famous William J. Burns National Detective Agency. Twenty-eight-year-old Raymond C. Schindler is manager of the New York office. It is his first murder case. As the Burns Agency’s motto is “succeed where others fail,” he has a lot on his shoulders. After weeks of frustrating work—with a retinue of agents—Schindler decides to pull out all the stops. He, with Burns’ consent, formulates an audacious sting operation (which includes a fake murder, fake criminals, and many other ruses) designed to make the more likely suspect reveal his dark secrets. What unfolds is one of the most extraordinary cases in detective history. Told throughout the 20th Century in anecdotal “amazing detective” articles, this remarkable murder case can now be fully documented—and in almost unbelievable day-by-day detail—constructed in such a way that over half of the story is told in the words of the people involved in it. The newly uncovered detective reports are a trove of compelling (often shocking) historical narratives—and feature those of the “sting” or “rope” detective, Carl R. Neumeister. Posing as an elite outlaw, he lived with the suspect for over two months. In “The Murder at Asbury Park” the dead return to life and reclaim their “voices” on paper and in the reader’s mind. It’s true crime in reportage, literal and without invention. Truly, it’s like nothing (nothing!) you’ve ever seen before. With 60 illustrations, many of them rare and one of a kind. Also by Peter Lucia: "One Week in Venice - A Tale of Quantum Mystery."</p>

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