New York: M Evans & Co, (1980). First edition - Historical novel by this Edgar award winning writer, set in New York in 1896, with police commissioner, Teddy Roosevelt involved in a cartoonist's killing, a missing woman - a prostitute known as the "Pink Angel" - and a bomb plot. A newspaper war between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst is heating up and noted cartoonist Evan Crandall is found murdered in his apartment. Meanwhile, anarchists - the "lunatic fringe" of the title 0 are planning to blow up a reservoir during a millionaire's nearby wedding reception. 287 pp.