The Tragedy of Y

A Shakespearean actor-turned-sleuth wonders if a suicide's been staged—and suspects the members of an eccentric New York family . . .

A ramshackle trawler, the Lavinia D rumbles into New York harbor with empty nets. When its crew spies something floating in the water, they drag it in, hoping for a profitable catch. Their prize flops on the deck, limp, cold, and bloody: the corpse of a man. His name was York Hatter, and he had disappeared from his house on the fashionable Washington Square se...