num_pages: 384
description: After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher, the young and still idealistic Amy Slade, is shocked to discover in the girl’s desk two stereoscopic photographs. One is of a dead baby in its cradle, and on the back Agnes has scrawled a terrible message. Worse, the other photograph is of Agnes in a pose captioned “What Mr. Newly Wed Really Wants.” When Agnes doesn’t show up at school the next day, her teacher takes the two photographs to the police. Murdoch, furious at the sexual exploitation of such a young girl, resolves to find the photographer – and to put him behind bars. Night’s Child is the fifth novel in Maureen Jennings’s highly praised historical mystery series. Three of Jennings’s novels have been made into TV movies under the title Murder 19C: The Murdoch Mysteries. Bravo/CHUM is currently developing a series based on the character of Detective William Murdoch for broadcast in 2007.
language: English
title: Night's Child
titlecomplete: Night's Child (Detective Murdoch, #5)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Canada, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Historical Mystery, Historical Fiction, Crime, Victorian
ratings_count: 945
series: Detective Murdoch
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Barry Award
category: Best Paperback Original, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Macavity Award
category: Sue Feder Historical Mystery, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award
publisher: McClelland & Stewart