The first in a new Victorian murder mystery series set in London, featuring a clever and determined young female sleuthWhen a customer of William Doughty's chemist shop dies of strychnine poisoning after drinking medicine he dispensed, William is blamed, and the family faces ruin. William's daughter, 19-year-old Frances, determines to redeem her ailing father's reputation and save the business. She soon becomes convinced that the death was murder, but unable to convince the police, she turns detective. Armed only with her wits, courage, and determination, and aided by some unconventional new...
The first in a new Victorian murder mystery series set in London, featuring a clever and determined young female sleuthWhen a customer of William Doug...
The fourth entry in the Victorian London murder mystery serieswith a clever and determined female sleuth
The sudden death of overweight 49-year-old Thomas Whibley sparks off an acrimonious furor in Bayswater, and sparks fly between rival diet doctors, vegetarians, and the extremist Pure Food Society. Young sleuth Frances Doughty is hired to findthe author of anonymous libels, when a former colleague of Whibley's, Hubert Sweetman, who has served14 years in prison for a violent robbery he claims he did not commit, asks her to trace his estranged family. Before she can start, however, the...
The fourth entry in the Victorian London murder mystery serieswith a clever and determined female sleuth
The Illustrated Police News provided an affordable illustrated roundup of `all the startling events of the week' from its first issue published on 20th February 1864. Led by the newspaper's bombastic imagery from the Library's archive, this new book revels in the infamy and social significance behind the exuberant headlines of this periodical.
The Illustrated Police News provided an affordable illustrated roundup of `all the startling events of the week' from its first issue published on 20t...
