# The Waterworks

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- Book: [The Waterworks](https://www.bookquiver.com/el-doctorow/the-waterworks) ([The Waterworks.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/el-doctorow/the-waterworks.md))
- Authors: [E.L. Doctorow](https://www.bookquiver.com/el-doctorow)
- Publisher: random_house_trade_paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-08-1297-819-3
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2007-05-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.” –The Washington Post Book World One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees...