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Prøv gratis i 14 dagerAmid London’s docks and dark alleys, a coroner’s officer investigates a murder: “A wonderful heroine . . . a side of the 1920s we don't usually see.” —Andrew Taylor, Diamond Dagger Award–winning author of The King’s Evil The poverty, drunken fights between visiting sailors, drug trafficking, and criminal gangs haunting the shadows of the busiest docks in the world mean that the Coroner sees more than its fair share of sudden and unnatural deaths. But Coroner’s Officer May Keaps has never failed to provide a jury with sufficient evidence to arrive at a just verdict.
May relishes the responsibility placed upon her—but there are many who believe it’s an unsuitable job for a woman. Even May begins to wonder if that’s the case when the discovery of a young man's body, in a Limehouse alley, plunges her into an underworld of opium dens, gambling, turf wars, protection rackets and murder—and she fears ending up on one of her own mortuary slabs…
© 2017 Bloodhound Books (E-bok): 9781913682699
Utgivelsesdato
E-bok: 12. desember 2017
Tagger
Amid London’s docks and dark alleys, a coroner’s officer investigates a murder: “A wonderful heroine . . . a side of the 1920s we don't usually see.” —Andrew Taylor, Diamond Dagger Award–winning author of The King’s Evil The poverty, drunken fights between visiting sailors, drug trafficking, and criminal gangs haunting the shadows of the busiest docks in the world mean that the Coroner sees more than its fair share of sudden and unnatural deaths. But Coroner’s Officer May Keaps has never failed to provide a jury with sufficient evidence to arrive at a just verdict.
May relishes the responsibility placed upon her—but there are many who believe it’s an unsuitable job for a woman. Even May begins to wonder if that’s the case when the discovery of a young man's body, in a Limehouse alley, plunges her into an underworld of opium dens, gambling, turf wars, protection rackets and murder—and she fears ending up on one of her own mortuary slabs…
© 2017 Bloodhound Books (E-bok): 9781913682699
Utgivelsesdato
E-bok: 12. desember 2017
Tagger
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