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The Murder of Dr. Armando Costa
Hardcover
Publisher: Mark E Welch
Published: Aug 1 2026
Pages: 214
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lisbon is humming. But it isn't the music of Fado.
When eccentric detective Charles W. Radcliff III arrives in the City of Seven Hills, he expects a retreat from the macabre. What he finds is a corpse coated in conductive cobalt-blue dust and a villa that functions more like a tuning fork than a home.
As historical tapestries vanish from the city's grandest halls, Radcliff and his stoic assistant, Reginald Pickering, uncover a terrifying truth: these stolen treasures were more than art-they were harmonic dampers designed to keep Lisbon's foundations from shaking apart.
With a fanatical historian pulling the strings of a physics-defying plot, Radcliff must race to stop a resonance sequence that threatens to collapse history itself into the Atlantic. In a race against vibrations and time, can Radcliff find the thread of truth before the city unravels?
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