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Edmund Whitty

Step into the atmospheric gloom of Victorian London with a tenacious journalist as he investigates a series of chilling murders. He grapples not only with cunning criminals but also with his own inner demons, adding a compelling psychological layer to the unfolding mysteries. This series masterfully blends thrilling detective work with historical intrigue and a stark examination of human darkness.

Der Tag der weissen Steine
The Fiend in Human

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  1. The Fiend in Human

    • 432 pages
    • 16 hours of reading

    London, 1852: the world's capital city of crime; a city where murder and hangings are public entertainment, where reporters and balladeers vie with one another to be first to the next grisly, exclusive revelation. Among the panoply of killers awaiting execution is Chokee Bill, aka 'The Fiend in Human Form', whose stranglings have set the capital abuzz. One of the balladeers, Henry Owler, is determined to extract a true confession from the killer. However, Chokee Bill claims he is innocent and that the real Fiend is still on the loose. Owler, enlists the help of one of London's leading investigative journalists, Edmund Whitty of the Falcon, to help him to discover the real murderer before he strikes again. But fate has some other twists in store. The killer is closer than either one expects, close enough to touch in the fog bound streets. Is he a wraith of the imagination? Or is he the nightmare the public have dreamed and now made all too real?

    The Fiend in Human1
    3.5
  2. Das viktorianische London im Brennglas von Korruption und Mord Edmund Whitty ist Spezialist für Reportagen aus der Londoner Unterwelt. Im vorliegenden Fall ist er einem mörderischen Pornografie-Ring auf der Spur, der seine Opfer nach historischen Figuren auswählt und umbringt. Seine Ermittlungen bringen auch ihn selbst in höchste Gefahr. „Großartige Unterhaltung. Ein Thriller, der das viktorianische London mit höchster Präzision zum Leben erweckt.“ William Gibson „Lebendige Charaktere, gestochen scharfe Dialoge und ein rasanter Plot.“ Giles Blunt

    Der Tag der weissen Steine2
    2.4