Mind of a killer : an Alec Lonsdale Victorian mystery /
Beaufort, Simon,
Mind of a killer : an Alec Lonsdale Victorian mystery / Simon Beaufort. - First world edition. - 278 pages ; 23 cm - Alec Lonsdale Victorian mystery .
"London, 1882. Alec Lonsdale, a young reporter on The Pall Mall Gazette, is following up a story about a fatal house fire. But the post mortem on the victim produces shocking results: Patrick Donovan's death was no accident. But why would someone murder a humble shop assistant and steal part of his brain? When a second body is discovered, its throat cut, and then a third, Lonsdale and his spirited female colleague, Hulda Freiderichs, begin to uncover evidence of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest echelons of Victorian society."--Book jacket
9780727887627 0727887629
Reporters and reporting--England--London--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Mind of a killer : an Alec Lonsdale Victorian mystery / Simon Beaufort. - First world edition. - 278 pages ; 23 cm - Alec Lonsdale Victorian mystery .
"London, 1882. Alec Lonsdale, a young reporter on The Pall Mall Gazette, is following up a story about a fatal house fire. But the post mortem on the victim produces shocking results: Patrick Donovan's death was no accident. But why would someone murder a humble shop assistant and steal part of his brain? When a second body is discovered, its throat cut, and then a third, Lonsdale and his spirited female colleague, Hulda Freiderichs, begin to uncover evidence of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest echelons of Victorian society."--Book jacket
9780727887627 0727887629
Reporters and reporting--England--London--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.