Deep in London's dangerous slums, Victorians transact their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man can procure whatever he wants. But for one such man, the price he pays is his life. In sunless Water Lane, respected solicitor Leighton Duff lies dead, kicked and beaten to death. Beside
The Silent Cry
β Scribed by Chase, Kira
- Book ID
- 110492251
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 102 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1554107571
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SUMMARY: No author since Dickens has captured the shadow side of Victoria's England as masterfully as Anne Perry. In The Silent Cry, she once again exposes the particular vices spawned by an age renowned for its virtues and reforms. And our able guide is investigator William Monk, ''the dark and bro