num_pages: 336
description: Gower Street London 1882: Sidney Grice London's most famous personal detective is expecting a visitor. He drains his fifth pot of morning tea and glances outside where a young plain woman picks her way between the piles of horse-dung towards his front door.March Middleton is Sidney Grice's ward and she is determined to help him on his next case. Her guardian thinks women are too feeble for detective work but when a grisly murder in the slums proves too puzzling for even Sidney Grice's encyclopaedic brain March Middleton turns out to be rather useful after all...Set in a London still haunted by the spectre of the infamous Spring-heeled Jack THE MANGLE STREET MURDERS is for those who like their crime original atmospheric and very very funny.
language: English
title: The Mangle Street Murders
publisher: Head of Zeus