bell, isaac (fictional character)

In 1921, when detective Isaac Bell's friend is shot while chasing a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to catch the smugglers. Bell investigates and becomes involved with an international bootlegging operation that stretches from Europe to Florida, and is plotting the downfall of America.

Detective Isaac Bell, working for the Van Dorn Detective Agency in 1907, is sent to stop a man known only as the Wrecker, a criminal who traverses the American West, sabotaging railroads and causing death while building up to what Bell guesses will be a grandiose and devastating act.

After witnessing a terrible coal mining accident, Detective Isaac Bell hunts for the high-level saboteurs he believes are responsible.

Investigating a disputed ruling that a brilliant pre-World War I battleship gun designer committed suicide, chief investigator Isaac Bell discovers that an elusive spy with ties to a top-secret project has been staging the killings of America's leading technological minds.