Dead Born: A Detective Sergeant Best Mystery 2 (Detective Sergeant Best Mysteries) - Softcover

Lock

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9780752464565: Dead Born: A Detective Sergeant Best Mystery 2 (Detective Sergeant Best Mysteries)

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ISBN 10: 0752464566 ISBN 13: 9780752464565

Publisher: The History Press, 2013

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PRAISE FOR
DEAD IMAGE

‘A gripping and satisfying murder mystery with an unguessable final twist’
Mystery Women

PRAISE FOR
DEAD BORN

‘[A] gripping Victorian mystery’
Publishers Weekly

‘Asking an historian to review a historical novel is asking for trouble – but Joan Lock’s book is something else. Her knowledge of London and its policing in the 19th century makes this into a very different kind of novel – one with an extremely realistic setting’
London Archive Users Forum

When the bodies of a number of babies are found scattered around Islington, Detective Sergeant Best is sent undercover to lodge next door to a suspected baby farm. He shadows an alleged 'child dropper' onto a Thames pleasure steamer and finds himself caught up in Britain's worst civilian tragedy ― the 1878 sinking of the Princess Alice ― a horrific experience which will haunt Best forever. Meanwhile, his determination to avenge the death of a young girl he had befriended and save the life of another becomes a crusade.

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"Gripping." "Publishers Weekly""

About the Author:

Ex-policewoman JOAN LOCK is the author of eight non-fiction books and two crime novels. She has been a regular contributor to the police press and the journal of the Crime Writers' Association. She has also written short stories, radio plays and radio documentaries. She lives in London

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