The Curator

<B><b>From <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Owen King, who “writes with witty verve” (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>) comes a “richly imagined” (<i>The New York Times</i>) Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurers are the most wonderful criminals you can imagine.</b></B><BR><BR>It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability.<BR><BR>Dora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire—to understand the mystery of her brother''s death, believing that the answer lies within The Museum of Psykical Research, where he worked when Dora was a child. With the city amidst a revolutionary u