Více o knize
A young woman, Natalie Meadows, jumps from Blackfriars Bridge, escaping from the horror she has just witnessed. But she is rescued and feels duty-bound to find out who murdered her best friend, the music hall star Nellie Warwick, and why. Natalie reinvents herself as Flora Thorne and finds a position as housemaid to the Reverend Wallace and his daughter. From the sanctuary of their home, she is able to investigate the circumstances of Nellie's murder. What she uncovers is a conspiracy of silence and corruption, and of unscrupulous men preying on women like herself and Nellie. Her attempts to unmask the killer and to bring him to justice exact a heavy price on Natalie. LONDON DUST is a powerful evocation of the underbelly of Victorian London, full of flavour, completely convincing and utterly gripping.
Nákup knihy
London Dust, Lee Jackson
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2003
- Vazba
- (měkká)
Doručení
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- Titul
- London Dust
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Lee Jackson
- Vydavatel
- Arrow
- Rok vydání
- 2003
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0099439999
- ISBN13
- 9780099439998
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Historické téma, Historické romány, Poezie, Detektivky, Viktoriánská doba, Sherlock Holmes, Společenské poměry
- Anotace
- A young woman, Natalie Meadows, jumps from Blackfriars Bridge, escaping from the horror she has just witnessed. But she is rescued and feels duty-bound to find out who murdered her best friend, the music hall star Nellie Warwick, and why. Natalie reinvents herself as Flora Thorne and finds a position as housemaid to the Reverend Wallace and his daughter. From the sanctuary of their home, she is able to investigate the circumstances of Nellie's murder. What she uncovers is a conspiracy of silence and corruption, and of unscrupulous men preying on women like herself and Nellie. Her attempts to unmask the killer and to bring him to justice exact a heavy price on Natalie. LONDON DUST is a powerful evocation of the underbelly of Victorian London, full of flavour, completely convincing and utterly gripping.