White Stone Day - Hardcover

Gray, John Maclachlan

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92 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312282931 ISBN 13: 9780312282936

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2005

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An investigation into the murder of a quack psychic leads London journalist Edmund Whitty to Oxford, where he encounters a brilliant and eccentric cleric with a passion for croquet, telling stories, and taking artistic pictures of little girls, who may or may not be involved with a ring of murderous pornographers, in a mystery set against the backdrop of Victorian England

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The new novel from the highly acclaimed author of The Fiend in Human.

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Victorian London. Fog bound, stinking, sinister. This is journalist Edmund Whitty’s world. He is a habitu� of taverns and gaming dens. He has lost fortunes. And he can’t find a story. He is being scooped by his rivals and his creditors are closing in on him.

Spiritualism is the new fad. An American detective asks Whittyto unmask a fraudulent psychic. Whitty has no other options, but the s�ance doesn’t go to plan. Whitty hears the voice of his dead brother imploring him to rights the wrongs of his life.

Whitty finds himself on a dangerous adventure that will take him into the highest echelons of society, where the bizarre and the sordid are the everyday currency, where young lives are sacrificed at strange whims, where Whitty himself will not escape accusations of murder and terrible imprisonment.

‘Builds to a tense and riveting climax’ Publisher’s Weekly

Praise for The Fiend In Human:

'A streetsmart period thriller brilliantly r-imaining Victorian london with great precision and a fine and mordant zest. Wonderfully entertaining throughout.' William Gibson, author of Pattern Recognition

'Superb scene-setting and ripe characterisation ... endlessly intriguing. This is a spectacle as well as a novel' Literary Review

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