The Blue and the Grey
Sutton, Surrey, England : Crème de la Crime, 2014.
Format: Book
Description: 220 pages ; 23 cm.
Introducing 19th-century private investigators Matthew Grand and James Batchelor in the first of a brand-new historical mystery series.
April, 1865. Having been an eye witness to the assassination of President Lincoln, Matthew Grand, a former captain of the 3rd Cavalry of the Potomac, has come to London on an undercover assignment to hunt down the last of the assassin's co-conspirators. Ambitious young journalist Jim Batchelor has been charged with writing a feature article on the visiting American, with the aim of getting the inside story on the assassination.
Both men are distracted from their missions by the discovery of a body behind the Haymarket Theatre in London's Soho district. It's the latest in a series of grisly garrottings by a killer known as the Haymarket Strangler.
As Grand and Batchelor team up to pursue their investigations through the dark underbelly of Victorian London, it becomes clear that there may be a disturbing connection between the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Haymarket Strangler.
April, 1865. Having been an eye witness to the assassination of President Lincoln, Matthew Grand, a former captain of the 3rd Cavalry of the Potomac, has come to London on an undercover assignment to hunt down the last of the assassin's co-conspirators. Ambitious young journalist Jim Batchelor has been charged with writing a feature article on the visiting American, with the aim of getting the inside story on the assassination.
Both men are distracted from their missions by the discovery of a body behind the Haymarket Theatre in London's Soho district. It's the latest in a series of grisly garrottings by a killer known as the Haymarket Strangler.
As Grand and Batchelor team up to pursue their investigations through the dark underbelly of Victorian London, it becomes clear that there may be a disturbing connection between the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Haymarket Strangler.
Series: Trow, M. J. Grand & Batchelor series.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination -- Fiction.
Americans -- England -- London -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Undercover operations -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination -- Fiction.
Americans -- England -- London -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Undercover operations -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781780290706 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
M Trow | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Mystery | In |