Fatal Induction: A Professor Bradshaw Mystery (Professor Bradshaw Series) - Softcover

Pajer, Bernadette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159058614X ISBN 13: 9781590586143

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2012

Synopsis

Seattle, 1901. The race to win an electrical competition incites Professor Bradshaw’s obsession for invention in this sequel to A SPARK OF DEATH. The winner’s telephonic system will deliver music of the Seattle Grand Theater to homes throughout the city, and Bradshaw is confident he can win. But a missing peddler and child divert him, while the assassination of President McKinley drops Bradshaw and the entire nation into shock.

When Bradshaw discovers the peddler’s child may have witnessed a murder, he follows her trail below Yesler Way, plunging into a seedy underworld of bars and brothels. Frustrated by the police department’s apathy and caught between power struggles, he doesn’t know who to trust. Each step of his investigation entangles him deeper in crime and corruption until he realizes that to save the peddler’s child, he must transform his contest entry into a trap to catch a killer.

The Professor Bradshaw Mystery Series features Benjamin Bradshaw, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. Bradshaw’s electrical forensic and investigative skills, combined with a keen understanding of human nature, bring the Seattle Police, and murder, frequently to his doorstep during the social and scientific turmoil of the early twentieth century.

About this title

About the Author:

Bernadette Pajer is the author of the Professor Bradshaw Mystery series which include A SPARK OF DEATH, FATAL INDUCTION, and CAPACITY FOR MURDER. She lives in the Seattle area with her husband and son, and when not researching or writing, enjoys supporting Reading Local and Literacy in the Northwest with the Seattle7Writers.org.

From Booklist:

Benjamin Bradshaw (A Spark of Death, 2011), professor of electrical engineering in Seattle, is working hard to win a competition to create a remote-access sound system for the Grand Theater. It is 1901, and President McKinley has just been assassinated, leaving the nation shocked and mourning. There is, however, a mystery closer to home that unfolds when Bradshaw discovers an abandoned peddler’s cart behind his house. It appears that a small child and her father were living in the cart. When Bradshaw learns that the child may be a murder witness, he begins searching for her in the seedy bars and brothels of Seattle’s underworld. As he investigates, he uncovers power struggles and corruption in the police department and decides to use his contest entry as a trap to catch the killer and protect his family. Bradshaw’s engineering and forensic skills offer readers a glimpse at life during the early twentieth century, including both the social unrest and the excitement over new scientific and technological discoveries. A fine choice for historical-mystery buffs. --Barbara Bibel

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 159058614X
• ISBN 13: 9781590586143
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250