Omslaget är sjukt snyggt och den låter vääldigt spännande:
London, 1850. Fog in the air and filth in
the streets, from the rat-infested graveyard of Tom-All-Alone's to the
elegant chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where the formidable lawyer
Edward Tulkinghorn has powerful clients to protect, and a deadly secret
to hide. Only that secret is now under threat from a shadowy and unseen
adversary - an adversary who must be tracked down at all costs, before
it's too late. Who better for such a task than young Charles Maddox?
Unfairly dismissed from the police force, Charles is struggling to
establish himself as a private detective. Only business is slow and his
one case a dead end, so when Tulkinghorn offers a handsome price for an
apparently simple job Charles is unable to resist. But as he soon
discovers, nothing here is what it seems. An assignment that starts
with anonymous letters leads soon to a brutal murder, as the
investigation lures Charles ever deeper into the terrible darkness
Tulkinghorn will stop at nothing to conceal.Inspired by Charles Dickens'
masterpiece "Bleak House", "Tom-All-Alone's" is a new and gripping
Victorian murder mystery which immerses the reader in a grim London
underworld that Dickens could only hint at - a world in which girls as
young as ten work the night as prostitutes, unwanted babies are
ruthlessly disposed of, and those who threaten the rank and reputations
of great men are eliminated at once, and without remorse.
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