Dead Born A Detective Sergeant Best Mystery 2 |
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Author:
| Lock, Joan |
Series title: | An Inspector Best Mystery Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-7524-8932-2 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2013 |
Publisher: | History Press Limited, The
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $4.36USD $1.99 |
Book Description:
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'A gripping and satisfying murder mystery with an unguessable final twist' - Mystery Women '[A] gripping Victorian mystery' - Publishers Weekly 'Asking an historian to review a historical novel is asking for trouble - but Joan Lock's book is something else. Her knowledge of London and its policing in the 19th century makes this into a very different kind of novel - one with an extremely realistic setting' - London Archive Users Forum When...
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'A gripping and satisfying murder mystery with an unguessable final twist' - Mystery Women
'[A] gripping Victorian mystery' - Publishers Weekly
'Asking an historian to review a historical novel is asking for trouble - but Joan Lock's book is something else. Her knowledge of London and its policing in the 19th century makes this into a very different kind of novel - one with an extremely realistic setting' - London Archive Users Forum
When the bodies of a number of babies are found scattered around Islington, Detective Sergeant Best is sent undercover to lodge next door to a suspected baby farm. He shadows an alleged 'child dropper' onto a Thames pleasure steamer and finds himself caught up in Britain's worst civilian tragedy -- the 1878 sinking of the Princess Alice -- a horrific experience which will haunt Best forever. Meanwhile, his determination to avenge the death of a young girl he had befriended and save the life of another becomes a crusade.