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Persons or Persons Unknown
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| | | The time is 18th-century London. Prostitutes are being brutally murdered in Covent Garden. Sir John Fielding, the blind magistrate who confounded London's first police force, must call upon his keen intellect and uncommon detecting skills to solve this shocking series of crimes with a plan that is as daring as it is desperate. One of "Publishers Weekly's" Best Books of the Year.
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Blind magistrate Sir John Fielding and his trusty teenage assistant Jeremy track down a Jack-the-Ripper-like serial killer in 18th-century London.
| PraiseNew York Times Book Review
"The two make a wonderful team. Jeremy's youthful eagerness for adventure sets the invigorating pace and pulls us into the lively street scenes. Taking his lead, we prowl dark, sinister alleys with those first policemen, the Bow Street Runners, and follow the bone collector to the macabre garden where the city buries its unmourned dead. But it is Sir John who puts the criminal events into perspective by sharing his clear, if troubling, insights into the greed, corruption and shocking inhumanity that challenged the urban conscience in these hard, thrilling times." - Marilyn Stasio 10/05/1997 |
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