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White Stone Day
John M. Gray
出版
Random House of Canada
, 2010-08-13
主題
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Thrillers / Crime
ISBN
0307369358
9780307369352
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=i20f8aZwwPAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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From award-winning author John MacLachlan Gray comes a mesmerizing novel of corruption and murder through the looking-glass of Victorian London.
Edmund Whitty writes lurid articles for the London press. He’s investigating a quack psychic who has been murdered after revealing a scandal involving Whitty’s late brother. Whitty’s search for the truth takes him back to Oxford, where a brilliant and eccentric cleric who delights in playing croquet, telling children’s stories and taking little girls’ pictures, may or may not be involved with a murderous ring of child pornographers. Gray, who evoked “the mean streets and byways of 1852 London with a skill worthy of Dickens”
(Publishers Weekl
y) in
The Fiend in Human
,
spins an even more irresistible tale of the dark secrets behind the facades of Victorian respectability.