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The vaults / Toby Ball.

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St. Martin's Press, c2010.

Political corruption -- Fiction.

Municipal archives -- Fiction.

Archivists -- Fiction.

Journalists -- Fiction.

Private investigators -- Fiction.

United States -- Fiction.

In a dystopian 1930s America, a chilling series of events leads three men down a path to uncover their city's darkest secret. At the height of the most corrupt administration in the City’s history, a mysterious duplicate file is discovered deep within the Vaults---a cavernous hall containing all of the municipal criminal justice records of the last seventy years. From here, the story follows: Arthur Puskis, the Vault's sole, hermit-like archivist with an almost mystical faith in a system to which he has devoted his life; Frank Frings, a high-profile investigative journalist with a self-medicating reefer habit; and Ethan Poole, a socialist private eye with a penchant for blackmail. All three men will undertake their own investigations into the dark past and uncertain future of the City---calling into question whether their most basic beliefs can be maintained in a climate of overwhelming corruption and conspiracy.

Suspense fiction.

Dystopian fiction.

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