DEAD BORN by Joan Lock ( 9780752464565 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

DEAD BORN
A DETECTIVE SERGEANT BEST MYSTERY

By:

Joan Lock

Format:

Paperback

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£8.99

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£6.56

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ISBN 10:

0752464566

ISBN 13:

9780752464565

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Publisher:

THE HISTORY PRESS LTD

Pub. date:

1 February, 2013

Pages:

192

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Synopsis:

PRAISE FORDEAD IMAGE `A gripping and satisfying murder mystery with an unguessable final twist' Mystery WomenPRAISE FORDEAD BORN`[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.

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