The notorious author Thomas De Quincey turns detective in a harrowing Victorian thriller from master storyteller David Morrell, which won the Macavity Award for Best Historical Mystery 2014.
Thomas De QuinceySeries
Step into the fog-laden streets of Victorian London, where intellectual discourse collides with a shadowy underworld of crime. This series plunges you into thrilling investigations set against a backdrop of societal intrigue and the pervasive influence of opium. Follow unlikely alliances as they navigate the complex moral landscape to uncover dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of respectability.
Recommended Reading Order
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The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The British government has fallen. The Empire seems to be hanging from a thread. Then the murders start. members of London's elite are found dead with names of assassin's who have failed to kill Queen Victoria. Based on actual attempts to kill Queen Victoria, Inspector of the dead brilliantly merges fact with fiction to bring a violent era of Victorian England to life.
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In the third Victorian mystery from prizewinning author David Morrell, the notorious Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey investigates a truly unprecedented murder - the first to ever take place on the railways.