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Le Détective Murdoch

Plongez dans les rues éclairées au gaz du Toronto de la fin du XIXe siècle avec un détective brillant qui élucide des crimes complexes. En utilisant des techniques médico-légales innovantes, en avance sur son temps, il rassemble méticuleusement les indices pour révéler la vérité. Cette série offre un mélange captivant de drame historique et de mystère captivant, idéal pour les amateurs d'enquêtes procédurales dans une époque révolue.

Murdoch Mysteries - Let Darkness Bury The Dead
Murdoch Mysteries - Journeyman to Grief
Let Loose the Dogs
Except the dying
Murdoch Mysteries - Poor Tom Is Cold
Murdoch Mysteries - Under the Dragon's Tail

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    Except the dying

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture
    3,5(96)Évaluer

    "In the late 19th century, Toronto city police Detective William Murdoch investigates the murder of a young girl found drugged and strangled in an alley in the red light district. The autopsy reveals the girl was pregnant but Murdoch doubts she was a doxie. Murdoch faces the challenge of investigating prominent members of Toronto society when she is identified as Therese Laporte, a chambermaid working for a wealthy family. When a possible witness to the murder is also killed, Murdoch learns that Therese was seen voluntarily getting into a carriage, as if she knew the occupant. With another witness in danger, Murdoch must stop the killer before he strikes again"--Publisher.

    Except the dying
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    Dolly Merishaw is a midwife and an abortionist in Victorian Toronto, and although she keeps quiet about her clients, her contempt and greed leaves them resentful and angry. It comes as no surprise to Detective William Murdoch when she is murdered, but Murdoch isn't sure if he's hunting one murderer - or two.

    Murdoch Mysteries - Under the Dragon's Tail
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    Detective William Murdoch is not convinced that Constable Oliver Wicken - a man who was the sole support of his mother and invalid sister - committed suicide. When he begins to suspect the involvement of Wicken's neighbours, the Eakin family, Mrs Eakin is committed to a lunatic asylum. Is she really insane?

    Murdoch Mysteries - Poor Tom Is Cold
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    Let Loose the Dogs

    • 512pages
    • 18 heures de lecture
    4,0(35)Évaluer

    This TV tie-in edition features the beloved Inspector Murdoch series by Maureen Jennings, which inspired the successful show The Murdoch Mysteries on CBC. The book offers fans a chance to delve deeper into the intriguing mysteries and rich character development that have captivated audiences.

    Let Loose the Dogs
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    After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher is shocked to discover salacious photographs of the girl in her desk. When Agnes doesn't show up at school the next day, her teacher takes the photographs to the police. Murdoch, furious at the sexual exploitation of such a young girl, resolves to find the photographer.

    Murdoch Mysteries - Night's Child
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    The Reverend Charles Howard sat in judgement on the poor, assessing their applications for the workhouse. But now he is dead, stabbed and brutally beaten in his office. Has some poor beggar he turned down taken his vengeance?

    Murdoch Mysteries - Vices of My Blood
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    In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is abducted, taken across the border to the US and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, the owner of one of Toronto's livery stables has been found dead. The investigation endangers Murdoch's own life - and reveals how harms committed in the past can erupt fatally in the present.

    Murdoch Mysteries - Journeyman to Grief
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