Though five hundred people witnessed the murder, nobody knows who did it! On the face of it, this is the simplest murder Blackstone has ever had to solve. The entire audience at the George Theatre saw Charlotte Devaraux stab William Kirkpatrick with a fake dagger. They gasped as he fell. But they gasped even more when they realised he was dead. How did the murderer manage to exchange the fake dagger for a real one? What is the source of the exotic poison smeared on the dagger's blade? And who is the mysterious little old man who keeps appearing on the edges of the investigation? Assisted by the amiable Sergeant Patterson and the brilliant Dr Ellie Carr, Blackstone follows the trail of the killer from the theatre to the world of the Victorian Freak Show and into the depths of a lunatic asylum. And though he does not know it, another murder is already being planned.
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In Victorian London, theater is in its heyday. The more avant-garde the play and the flashier the staging, the fuller the house. The George Theatre is especially popular, and its latest play, featuring renowned actors Charlotte Devaraux and William Kirkpatrick, is a hit, especially the scene where Charlotte's character stabs Kirkpatrick as he hangs from the gondola of a hot-air balloon. But on the night Inspector Blackstone sees the play, the stabbing scene becomes all too realistic, as the "fake" dagger Charlotte uses turns out to be real, and Kirkpatrick winds up dead. With the help of his assistant, Sergeant Patterson, Blackstone begins the painstaking process of investigating the murder. With a plot that moves from theater dressing rooms to a terrifying mental asylum, from a weird Victorian freak show to a hot-air balloon chase, Rustage delivers another well-written, entertaining Victorian police procedural. For fans of Anne Perry's William Monk series. Emily Melton
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Fans of Alan Rustage's Woodend books will find in this brand new series the same ingenious plotting and entertaining turn of phrase. But this time the sharp eye for period detail turns to Victorian London - and a hero who is undeniably a little more of a daredevil.
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