The Blue and the Grey: A Victorian mystery: 1 (A Grand & Batchelor Victorian Mystery) - Hardcover

Trow, M.J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780290705 ISBN 13: 9781780290706

Publisher: Crème de la Crime, 2015

Synopsis

Introducing 19th-century private investigators Matthew Grand and James Batchelor in the first of a brand-new historical mystery series.

April, 1865. Having been an eye witness to the assassination of President Lincoln, Matthew Grand, a former captain of the 3rd Cavalry of the Potomac, has come to London on an undercover assignment to hunt down the last of the assassin's co-conspirators. Ambitious young journalist Jim Batchelor has been charged with writing a feature article on the visiting American, with the aim of getting the inside story on the assassination.

Both men are distracted from their missions by the discovery of a body behind the Haymarket Theatre in London's Soho district. It's the latest in a series of grisly garrottings by a killer known as the Haymarket Strangler.

As Grand and Batchelor team up to pursue their investigations through the dark underbelly of Victorian London, it becomes clear that there may be a disturbing connection between the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Haymarket Strangler.

About this title

Review:

"Solid writing, an imaginative plot, authentic period detail, and two intriguing main characters . . .an entertaining and unusual read."--Booklist

About the Author:

M J Trow is a military historian by training and the author of the long-running Inspector Lestrade and 'Mad Max' Maxwell detective series, as well as several non-fiction books, including Who Killed Kit Marlowe? He lives on the Isle of Wight.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crème de la Crime
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1780290705
• ISBN 13: 9781780290706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 226