PRAISE FORDEAD IMAGE A gripping and satisfying murder mystery with an unguessable final twist' Mystery WomenPRAISE FORDEAD BORN[A] gripping Victorian mystery' Publishers Weekly`Asking an historian to review a historical novel is asking for trouble - but Joan Lock's book is something else.
The explosion was heard twenty miles away.As he struggles to find the answers, Scotland Yard's Sergeant Ernest Best straddles the conflicting worlds of art, wealth and privilege and that of the poverty-stricken London boatman in an intriguing mystery that will change his life forever.
When Scotland Yard's first detective branch was set up in 1842 crime was very different from today. The favoured murder weapon was the cut-throat razor; carrying a pocket watch was dangerous; the most significant clue at a murder scene could be the whereabouts of a candlestick or hat.
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The collision of the Princess Alice pleasure steamer with the Tyne collier, Bywell Castle, in the Thames in September 1878 resulted in Britain's worst- ever inland waterway accident. Joan Lock describes vividly the lead up to the accident, the disaster itself and its aftermath.
Here, now fully updated for the twenty-first century, is the complex and fascinating history of the formation of the British Women Police. Full of drama, intrigue and humour, it also captures, through well-authenticated primary material, the colour and manner of the times.
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