𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

A Journeyman to Grief

✍ Scribed by Jennings, Maureen

Book ID
106989231
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
188 KB
Series
Detective Murdoch 7
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto thirty-eight years later -- in murder.

In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on a murder case that will take all of his resourcefulness to solve. The owner of one of Toronto's livery stables has been found dead. He has been horsewhipped and left hanging from his wrists in his tack room, and his wife claims that a considerable sum of money has been stolen. Then a second man is also murdered, his body strangely tied as if he were a rebellious slave. Murdoch has to find out whether Toronto's small "coloured" community has a vicious murderer in its midst -- an investigation that puts his own life in danger.

Maureen Jennings's trademark in her popular and acclaimed Detective Murdoch series is to reveal a long-forgotten facet about life in the city that dispels any notion that...

πŸ“œ SIMILAR VOLUMES

cover
A Journeyman to Grief
✍ Maureen Jennings πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2008 πŸ› McClelland & Stewart 🌐 English βš– 169 KB

The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto thirty-eight years later -- in murder. In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on a murder case that

cover
A Journeyman to Grief
✍ Maureen Jennings πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2008;2009 πŸ› McClelland & Stewart 🌐 English βš– 169 KB

The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto thirty-eight years later -- in murder. In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on a murder case that

cover
A Journeyman to Grief
✍ Jennings, Maureen πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2008 πŸ› McClelland & Stewart 🌐 English βš– 192 KB

The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto thirty-eight years later -- in murder. In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on a murder case that

cover
A Journeyman to Grief
✍ Jennings, Maureen πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2008 πŸ› McClelland & Stewart 🌐 English βš– 164 KB

The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto thirty-eight years later -- in murder. In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on a murder case that

cover
a Journeyman to Grief
✍ Jennings, Maureen πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2008 πŸ› McClelland & Stewart 🌐 English βš– 192 KB

The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto thirty-eight years later -- in murder. In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on a murder case that

cover
A Journeyman to Grief
✍ Jennings, Maureen πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2007 πŸ› McClelland & Stewart 🌐 English βš– 199 KB

### Review β€œWhen it comes to evoking a bygone era of dim gas lighting, ill-heated homes, the shenanigans of the criminal underclass and the corrupt hypocrisy of our β€˜betters,’ Jennings has [Anne] Perry beat hands down.” β€” _The Calgary Herald_ β€œJennings brings to life a violent but vital socie