Dead Born
A Detective Sergeant Best Mystery 2
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- 5٫99 US$
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- 5٫99 US$
وصف الناشر
'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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Joan Lock's gripping Victorian mystery, Dead Born, the sequel to Dead Image, Detective Sergeant Best goes undercover to try to collar the fiend who's been leaving the bodies of dead babies around Islington. His quest takes him aboard the Thames pleasure steamer Princess Alice, which sinks in one of Britain's worst real-life disasters.
