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His impressive masterwork Speaks the Nightbird, a tour-de force of witch-hunt horror in a northeastern city, was praised by Sandra Brown as "seriously gratifying,informed with incomparable insight in to the human spirit." Today, Robert McCammon provides the idol of this hypnotic book, Matthew Corbett, to eighteenth century Ny, in which a monster wields a bloody and frightening energy over a busy town making out its identification -- and over Matthew's own uncertain future. The unsolved murder of a respectable physician has sent ripples of concern within a town teeming with sound and life and business. Who snuffed-out the great guy's existence using the cut of a knife on the night road? The neighborhood printmaster has tagged the fiend "the Masker," adding gas to some unstable secret,and once the Masker promises a brand new target, hard-working small law clerk Matthew Corbett is attracted right into a labyrinth of forensic hints and heart-beating analysis that'll both check his natural penchant for recognition and irritate his hunger for justice.