โ Scribed by Hedges, Carol
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
1864 marks the arrival of a brand new department store right in the shopping heart of Oxford Street.
What owner John Gould does not expect, is the presence of a dead man in one of his display windows.
How did he get there?
And why has Gould's store been picked out as a murder location?
Meanwhile Sir Hugh and Lady Meriel Wynward are not expecting to hear from their daughter Sybella, who died in a railway accident two years ago.
So when a letter written in her hand arrives unexpectedly, on what would have been her eighteenth birthday, it throws them into turmoil.
What is going on?
Bleak expectations dog the progress of Stride and Cully ,two officers of Scotland Yard's detective division, as they embark upon their most complex case so far.
The twists and turns of the investigation will lead them into a murky mire of murder and blackmail, and the strange dark underground world of Victorian spiritualism.
In her latest Victorian Detective novel, Wonders & Wickedness, author Carol Hedges pays homage to all these and more. The story seems at first as though it came straight from the pages of Dickens himself.
In fact, the Victorian London of 1864 is itself one of the supporting characters, introduced by its iconic fog.
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