''The Man Who Cast Two Shadows'' is the second book in the

Kathleen Mallory Kathleen 'Kathy' Mallory is a fictional character featured in eleven mystery novels by author Carol O'Connell. The novels in the series include ''Mallory's Oracle'' (1994), '' The Man Who Cast Two Shadows'' (1995), '' Killing Critics'' (1996), ''St ...

series written by

Carol O'Connell Carol O'Connell (born May 26, 1947, in New YorkElizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, ''Great Women Mystery Writers'', 2nd ed., Greenwood Press, 2007, p. 192, ) is an author of crime fiction, with a large series of crime books focusing around the character ...

, published as ''The Man Who Lied to Women'' in the UK. Mallory is a detective in

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...

's Special Crimes Unit. Her colleagues fear she has been killed when a body is found in a park, similar in appearance and wearing a blazer embroidered with her name. Mallory quickly identifies the victim (whose fingers have been destroyed to hamper a positive ID) and she is given the case. The detectives only have three clues to work with including an unpublished manuscript, a missing computer file and a cat who knows the murderer. The clues point to three possible suspects who all live in the same building. Mallory starts baiting the killer with computer messages, but ends up becoming bait herself.

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1995 novels Kathleen Mallory (novel series) Novels set in New York City {{1990s-crime-novel-stub