As the brutal winter of 1895 bears down on Toronto, a young girl's body turns up in a desolate alley. When it's discovered that the girl was pregnant, Det. William Murdoch suspects someone was trying to hide a scandal. But when he learns more about the girl's life, he realizes her death is the work of someone with a far more sinister purpose. Martin's Press.
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As the brutal winter of 1895 bears down on Toronto, a young girl's body turns up in a desolate alley. When it's discovered that the girl was pregnant, Det. William Murdoch suspects someone was trying to hide a scandal. But when he learns more about the girl's life, he realizes her death is the work of someone with a far more sinister purpose. Martin's Press.
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New. 2012. paperback / softback. Paperback. In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the naked body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. The victim was pregnant when she died. Detective William Murdoch soon discovers that many of those connected with the girl's life have secrets to hide. Was her death on attempt to cover up a scandal in one of the city's influential families? Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 204 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
This is a very good read in its genre. But if a reader, who is a fan of the TV series, "The Artful Detective," is expecting to encounter their favorite characters, and the "class" of the settings, they will not. Brackenreid, Julia Ogden and Emily Grace are not part of the story. Both Murdoch and Crabtree are quite different physically as well as are their personality styles. As Maureen Jennings has written her novel, the people are not as refined and the times are not as clean. Among the poorer classes, their circumstances are rough and raw and probably, far more descriptively accurate in terms of the way people lived in the late 19th century. While my expectations, based on the TV series, were altered, I still found the story very compelling. And Maureen Jennings can tell a story.