num_pages: 384
description: The New York Times Book Review said of The Yard If Charles Dickens isnt somewhere clapping his handsWilkie Collins surely is. Now Alex Grecian returns with his new novel of Scotland Yards Murder Squadand its a gripper. The British Midlands. Inhabitants call it the Black Countryand with good reason. Bad things happen there. When three members of a prominent family disappear from the Midlandsand a human eyeball is discovered in a birds nestScotland Yards Murder Squad is called in. But Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith have stepped into something much more bizarre and complicated than expected. Superstitions abound in the intertwined histories of the villagers including a local legend about a monster some claim to have seen. In addition a mysterious epidemic is killing off the inhabitants and the village itself is sinking into the coal mines below. Day and Hammersmith soon realize that they too are in over their heads. And the more they investigate the more they fear that they may never be allowed to leave.
language: English
title: The Black Country
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons