When the bodies of a number of babies are found scattered around Islington, the volatile 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 ghastly experience which will haunt Best forever. His determination to avenge the death of a young pregnant girl he had befriended and save the life of another becomes a crusade. Meanwhile, his beloved Helen returns from Paris with the promise of a decision as to their future. Dead Born is an exciting sequel to Best's adventure's in Dead Image and is again based on historical fact.
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In Joan Lock's gripping Victorian mystery, Dead Born, the sequel to Dead Image, Detective Sergeant Best goes undercover to try to collar the fiend who's been leaving the bodies of dead babies around Islington. His quest takes him aboard the Thames pleasure steamer Princess Alice, which sinks in one of Britain's worst real-life disasters.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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'...Joan Lock's Dead Image finds new material among the teeming Holmesian possibilities of late Victorian London....solidly researched crime novel.' The Times. 'A novel that I recommend without reservation' Sherlock Holmes: Detective Magazine
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