Plongez dans les bas-fonds sombres du Londres victorien, où un détective brillant mais insaisissable opère en marge de la loi. Chaque épisode entraîne les lecteurs plus profondément dans un monde d'intrigues complexes et de mystères captivants, où les façades sociales cachent de sombres secrets. Préparez-vous à des enquêtes pleines de suspense où les plus grandes menaces rôdent dans l'ombre et où la loyauté est constamment mise à l'épreuve.
London 1844: Two years after its creation, The Metropolitan Police's Detective Forces is being humiliated by its inability to catch murderers. Detective Inspector Newsome decides to recruit a master criminal to aid his men in searching the dangerous rookeries of the city. By luck, such a man falls into their hands, but he is an enigma!
The latest Victorian mystery from the author of The Incendiary's Trail.
The third novel in McCreet's extraordinary Victorian crime seriesA death on Waterloo bridge, a body in the river near Wapping, a lady robbed on Wych Street - all common enough daily incidents in early Victorian London. But when an outrageous theft is committed at the port, the clues from these seemingly unconnected crimes soon point irresistibly to a mystery deeper and murkier than the Thames itself. The rapacious Inspector Newsome has much to prove, ex-police detective George Williamson faces difficult choices, and the mysterious Noah Dyson is once more drawn unwillingly within the reach of the authorities. Meanwhile, competing against them all, there is the enigmatic figure calling himself Eldritch Batchem . . . Lives and reputations are at stake. As the investigators pursue a macabre trail into the city's darkest passages, each seeks a prize more personal than mere justice. And in the race for a solution, all stand to discover much more than they are prepared for . . . The Thieves' Labyrinth is a dazzling Victorian entertainment - a gripping, richly atmospheric murder mystery.
Two bodies are discovered on the same night in the same part of London: both shocking, both inexplicable - neither entirely human. Police Commissioner Sir Richard Mayne's Detective Force is being mocked by the press on one side and investigated by Parliament on the other. His investigator Inspector Albert Newsome seems afflicted by a dangerous mania, so when two houses are apparently burned down by an incendiary, the commissioner sees an opportunity to again recruit the victims of the crime: ex-detective George Williamson and his shadowy friend Noah Dyson. Together, they must collaborate in a case more gruesome and extraordinary than any of them has experienced. Further inhuman effigies appear, Scotland Yard itself is robbed, Mr Williamson is arrested for murder, and men walk the streets wearing the exact likenesses of others. Is the evil mind behind this chaos the same man being sought by Inspector Newsome? And is the villain's aim blackmail, revenge, anarchy . . . or merely terror?