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An escaped assassin. A group of cannibals on the run. A threatening letter. Newspaper reporter Alec Lonsdale is on the case in this compelling Victorian mystery."e;All Londoners will see what the Watchers are capable of on Christmas Eve ..."e;December 1882. Attending the opening of the new Natural History Museum, Pall Mall Gazette reporter Alec Lonsdale and his colleague Hulda Friederichs are shocked to discover a body in the basement, hacked to death. Suspicion immediately falls on a trio of cannibals, brought over from the Congo as museum exhibits, who have disappeared without trace.Alec however has his doubts - especially when he discovers that three other influential London men have been similarly murdered. When he and Hulda discover a letter in the victim's home warning of a catastrophic event planned for Christmas Eve, the pair find themselves in a race against time to discover who exactly the Watchers are and what it is they want
Beaufort, Simon: Watchers of the Dead (E-Book)
eBook - An Alec Lonsdale Victorian mystery
ISBN/EAN: 9781448302147
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 256 S.
Einband: Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.05.2019
Auflage: 1/2019
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM