Bestselling author Sinclair McKay gives a gripping account of a murder in the heart of Victorian London, which intrigued and scandalised Bloomsbury society.
Bestselling author Sinclair McKay gives a gripping account of a murder in the heart of Victorian London, which intrigued and scandalised Bloomsbury society.
SINCLAIR MCKAY is the acclaimed author of history and historical true crime including the best-selling The Secret Life of Bletchley Park. HIs previous Aurum titles include Mile End Murder, The Lost World of Bletchley Park, The Secret Life of Fighter Command and The Secret Listeners for Aurum, as well as histories of Hammer films and the James Bond films. He writes features for the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday and lives in London.
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Preface – The Dislocation of the Dead 1 The Day Before 2 ‘There Is Something in the Cellar’ 3 The Man from X Division 4 A City of Disappearances 5 ‘I Am Not a Judge of Human Bones’ 6 Superior Apartments in a Quiet Home 7 ‘A Mass of Light-Coloured Ringlets’ 8 The Canterbury Dolls 9 The Book of Dreams 10 ‘No, Not Me’ 11 The Brothers Bastendorff 12 The New Age of Light 13 He Kept Company with Her 14 The Boiling Bones 15 ‘Everything Was Sweet’ 16 ‘It Was Not My Place’ 17 ‘Working Women Like Herself’ 18 Avowed Admirers 19 ‘The Expected Child’ 20 ‘Oh God! What a Sight Met My Gaze!’ 21 She Had No Character 22 ‘I Have Disgraced You Before all the Country’ 23 ‘I Depend Upon My Character’ 24 ‘Such a Strange, Brotherly Part’ 25 Disintegration 26 A Length of Washing Line 27 The Stain That Would Not Go Notes Picture Credits Afterword: A Bloomsbury and Somers Town Walk Afterword Two: Illustrated Murder and Mayhem! – The Victorian Press Selected Further Reading Acknowledgements Biography
Preface – The Dislocation of the Dead 1 The Day Before 2 ‘There Is Something in the Cellar’ 3 The Man from X Division 4 A City of Disappearances 5 ‘I Am Not a Judge of Human Bones’ 6 Superior Apartments in a Quiet Home 7 ‘A Mass of Light-Coloured Ringlets’ 8 The Canterbury Dolls 9 The Book of Dreams 10 ‘No, Not Me’ 11 The Brothers Bastendorff 12 The New Age of Light 13 He Kept Company with Her 14 The Boiling Bones 15 ‘Everything Was Sweet’ 16 ‘It Was Not My Place’ 17 ‘Working Women Like Herself’ 18 Avowed Admirers 19 ‘The Expected Child’ 20 ‘Oh God! What a Sight Met My Gaze!’ 21 She Had No Character 22 ‘I Have Disgraced You Before all the Country’ 23 ‘I Depend Upon My Character’ 24 ‘Such a Strange, Brotherly Part’ 25 Disintegration 26 A Length of Washing Line 27 The Stain That Would Not Go Notes Picture Credits Afterword: A Bloomsbury and Somers Town Walk Afterword Two: Illustrated Murder and Mayhem! – The Victorian Press Selected Further Reading Acknowledgements Biography
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