Inventor Thomas Alva Edison is also a ruthless businessman, intent on furthering his patents and General Electric and beating rivals like Nikola Tesla and Westinghouse. Edison has agents in place in Seattle but he s come himself in pursuit of a mysterious invention lost in 1901 in Elliott Bay. When Edison asks for information, few refuse. But not University of Washington Professor Benjamin Bradshaw who s earned a reputation as a private investigator where science electricity is concerned. Bradshaw hopes that the lost device ...
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Inventor Thomas Alva Edison is also a ruthless businessman, intent on furthering his patents and General Electric and beating rivals like Nikola Tesla and Westinghouse. Edison has agents in place in Seattle but he s come himself in pursuit of a mysterious invention lost in 1901 in Elliott Bay. When Edison asks for information, few refuse. But not University of Washington Professor Benjamin Bradshaw who s earned a reputation as a private investigator where science electricity is concerned. Bradshaw hopes that the lost device, one conceived in anger by an anarchist and harnessed for murder, will elude Edison s hired divers. _x000D_ Soon, one December morning, 1903, the Bon Marche s Department Store electrician is found dead in the Men s Wear Window clutching a festoon of Edison s new holiday lights. Bradshaw believes Edison had set a dangerous game in motion. Motives multiply as the dead man s secrets surface alongside rivalries at the Bon Marche. Bradshaw, his sleuthing partner Henry Pratt, and the Seattle PD s Detective O Brien pursue leads, but none spark Bradshaw s intuition. His heart is not in the investigation but in a courtship that will force him to defy his Catholic faith or lose his beloved, Missouri. Then a crossroads in the case forces him to face his personal fears and his first professional failure. Whatever the outcomes, his life is about to change . _x000D_
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