A Metropolitan Murder [electronic resource]
Jackson, Lee2010
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The last train of the night pulls into the gas-lit platform of Baker Street underground station. A young woman is found strangled, her body abandoned in a second-class carriage. The brutal 'Railway Murder' brings Inspector Decimus Webb to the newly-formed Metropolitan Line on a bleak winter's night. His investigation leads him through the slums of Victorian London to the Holborn Refuge, a home for 'fallen women', and to Clara White, a respectable servant. But Clara has her own tragic and shameful history. As her past is revealed, Inspector Webb must decide whether she is merely a victim of circumstance, or a prime suspect. Only then can he unearth a dark secret, hidden in the depths of underground London. Lee Jackson's second novel brilliantly recreates the sights, sounds and smells of Victorian London, taking readers on a suspense-filled journey through its criminal underworld.
Main title:
A Metropolitan Murder [electronic resource] / Lee Jackson
Author:
Jackson, Lee, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Decimus Webb
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Lee Jackson lives in with his partner Joanne in London and works as alibrarian at the British Library of Political and Economic Science. His first book, London Dust was nominated for the CWA Ellis Peters Historial Dagger Award. He is fascinated by the social history of Victorian London and spends much of his time on the ongoing development of his website, www.victorianlondon.org
ISBN:
9781407088983
Language:
English
BRN:
2836295
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