in The Cold Toronto Winter Of 1895, The Unclad Body Of A Servant Girl Is Found Frozen In A Deserted Laneway. Detective William Murdoch Quickly Finds Out That More Than One Person Connected With The Girl’s Simple Life Has Something To Hide.
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how Ungrateful Of Therese Laporte To Leave Her Maid's Post With Dr. Rhodes In Toronto To Sneak Out Of The House And Return To Her Family Back In Chatham Without Any Notice Or Explanation But A Hastily Scrawled Paper. And How Inconsiderate Of Her To Turn Up Dead In A Disreputable Neighborhood, Naked, Drugged, And Dead Of Asphyxia And Exposure. Now Acting Detective William Murdoch, Who Suspects It'll Be Years Before He's Promoted, Is Examining The Doctor's Household Under A Microscope. How Long Will It Be Before He Finds Out That Cyril Rhodes's Servants Are Bursting With Accusations Against Each Other And Their Master? Or That The Chilly Relations Between Dr. Rhodes And His English Wife Donalda Are Based On A Long-standing (and Highly Material) Grudge? Or That Their Son Owen Has Asked His All-but-fiancée, Harriet Shepcote, To Tell A Fib About What Time He Left Her Father Alderman Godfrey Shepcote's House The Night Of Therese's Death? Or That The Unsullied Rhodes Family Has Closer Ties To Alice Black And Ettie Weston, A Pair Of Working Girls Who Cherish Some Dangerous Knowledge About That Last Night, Than They'd Like To Acknowledge?
jennings Handles Every Aspect Of The Fin-de-siècle Milieuthe Domestic Rituals, The Social Divisions, The Suspects' Secrets, The Bachelor Investigator's Lonelinesswith Such Assurance That The Villain's Identity Is A Major Disappointment. Surely This Talented Newcomer Will Conclude Her Next Novel More Compellingly.
Categories:
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Crime & Mystery
- Science Fiction
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Author : Jennings, Maureen
Language : English
Published :2010-05-04
Number Of Pages : 360
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0771043317
ISBN-13 : 9780771043314
Item weight : 0.75 lb
Dimensions : 0.79 in x 5.2 in x 7.95 in
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