Louise Levene

Ghastly Business (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

1929. A girl is strangled ina London alley, the mangled corpse of a peeping Tom is found in a railwaytunnel and the juicy details of the latest trunk murder are updated hourly infresh editions of the evening papers. Into this insalubrious world steps Dora Strang, a doctor's daughter with anunmaidenly passion for anatomy. Denied her own medical career, she moves intolodgings with a hilarious, insecticidal landlady and begins life as filingclerk to the country's pre-eminent pathologist, Alfred Kemble. Dora is thrilled by the grisly post-mortems and the headline-grabbing courtcases and more fascinated still by the pathologist himself: an enigmatic warhero with bottle-green eyes and an air of sardonic glamour - the embodiment ofall her girlish fantasies. But Dora's job holds more than a few surprises, notleast of which is finding herself frequently under the watchful gaze - andoccasionally wandering hands - of the distinguished Dr Kemble. As things take adistinctly ghastly turn, both in one of the department's major cases and inDora's own life, the newspaper reporters sharpen their pencils in morbidanticipation … But can the impressionable Miss Strang emerge unscathed? Ghastly Business conjures the world ofinterwar London with gleeful vigour: a time when a woman's body was onlymentioned if someone had dismembered it; when the scars of the Great War werestill fresh and when a pretty young bluestocking needed to tread very carefullyin order to avoid becoming yet another of its casualties.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408818213
• Artikelnr.: 38284754

Autorenporträt

Louise Levene is the author of A Vision of Loveliness, a BBC Book at Bedtime, which was also longlisted for the Desmond Elliott first novel prize, Ghastly Business and The Following Girls. She was the dance critic for the Sunday Telegraph for sixteen years and before that a dance writer on the Independent, but now works for the Financial Times. She has also been an advertising copywriter, a window dresser, a radio presenter, an office cleaner, a crossword editor, a university tutor, a college professor and a saleslady. She lives in London with her husband, their two children and Basher.