"The Bone Collector" - читать интересную книгу автора (Deaver Jeffery)

III . THE PORTABLE’S DAUGHTER

Overturn, overturn, overturn! is the maxim of New York … The very bones of our ancestors are not permitted to lie quiet a quarter of a century, and one generation of men seem studious to remove all relics of those which preceded them. – PHILIP HONE, MAYOR OF NEW YORK, DIARY, 1845