New York Police Detective Simon Ziele, mourning the loss of his fiancĂ©e in the 1904 General Slocum disaster, joins forces with criminologist Alistair Sinclair to pursue killers in the roughest slums and most elegant townhouses of Manhattan. In the Shadow of Gotham, the first Simon Ziele novel, won the Edgar® Award for Best First Novel by an American Author and was nominated for Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards.