The Lure of el Rio d'Ais

It's 1893. Buoyed by his capture of a slippery nemesis in Florida Scotland Yard inspector Maurice Ogelvie plans to return to London. As unexpected events draw him ever further west the young man discovers a brash new country and a rebellious inner self that he has long suppressed. Torn between the call of duty and the wonders that repeatedly beckon him he is changed forever.</p><p>In Return to the River he tells of the new Madison Square Garden Central Park and the Brooklyn Bridge--and police corruption in New York City. Chicago shows him the White City the Great Columbian Exposition but he endures the fetid stink of the stockyards and pursues a vicious serial rapist-murderer. Under spacious western skies he revels in the beauty of the land and raw honesty of the frontier--but finds that old European feuds have preceded him. </p><p>In Butte Montana the Richest Hill on Earth he finally finds the love of his life and reason to come back to El Rio d'Ais. </p><p>Dr. John Watson listening to him succumbs to the lure of this river. From the Doctor's Diary relates three mysterious cases in Florida in the years leading to World War I. </p>