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Twelve-year-old Nathan Cole has been called the best detective of his age. Ever since discovering a bookcase in his attic, filled with an ominous collection of unsolved mysteries, he has endured the perils of secret rooms and treacherous mountain caves, faced the terror of rat-infested tunnels, been swallowed up by raging ocean waters, and has narrowly escaped the brutality of thugs and assassins3/4all in an effort to fulfill his role in a secret Hammond family legacy.But unlike his previous adventures, this time it's personal. Armed with the startling truth behind the suspicious death of his grandfather, famed bookseller Henry Hammond, Nathan and his trusted friend Gina McDermott will match wits with a new kind of enemy3/4one cleverly disguised as a friend3/4as they sift through a tangle of clues. Principal among them is an archeologist's field journal. It holds a hidden clue they can use to trap the killer. But to recover the journal, they'll have to survive the guile of one devious adversary while being pursued by another, even more dangerous villain. Facing danger at every turn, will Nathan and Gina ultimately prevail, or will they become the next victims of The Tears of the Empress?

Eleven-year-old Nathan Cole was never much of a reader-until he discovered a mysterious bookcase hidden in the attic. Once the property of his grandfather, Henry Hammond, the noted bookseller from Cambridge, Massachusetts, the bookcase called to Nathan from the moment he first found it. But this is no ordinary bookcase. The books that line its shelves have been saved for one reason: they each contain an unsolved mystery. What's more, Nathan doesn't choose the books he takes from the case3/4they choose him. And now, another book has presented itself. In it is a mystery that dates back to the late 1800s: the baffling account of a boxcar that seemingly vanished into thin air, from a moving train, in a town that doesn't exist. Only with the help of his best friend, Gina McDermott, can he hope to unravel a secret that has haunted a small New Hampshire town for generations. But Nathan and Gina aren't alone. Someone is waiting. And watching.

It looked like an ordinary book. Old and boring. But when 11-year-old Nathan Cole picks it up off the attic floor strange things begin to happen-things he can't explain, or ignore. The book leads him through a complex set of clues left by Alastair Raven, a renowned New York City architect who vanished in the mid 1800s, never to be heard from again. Through every twist and turn, Nathan is convinced that Raven is reaching out to him, leading him to something. But what could a man who lived 150 years ago possibly want him to know? As Nathan works to answer that question, an even bigger mystery looms, one that dates back through his family for five generations. See what surprises await him in this action-packed novel that shows how one book can change the course of your life. Forever.