The murder of Patience Brooke
Subtitle: Charles Dickens & Superintendent Jones investigate
By: J.C. Briggs
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Stroud
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780750957595; 9780750954433
Subjects: Fiction; History; LITERARY CRITICISM; European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: November 1849. Charles Dickens, the famous author, turns detective. He and Superintendent Jones of Bow Street must find the man who cut the throat of Patience Brooke, assistant matron at Dickens's Home for Fallen Women - a man who sings as he kills. Their search takes them into the filthy slums of Victorian London where the fog hides grim secrets. When a little girl is found dead and another girl disappears from the home, Dickens is forced to face deeply buried secrets from his own past.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title; Quote; Contents; 1 The Singer; 2 Dickens and Jones; 3 The Man with the Crooked Face; 4 To London; 5 Bow Street; 6 Dickens at Home; 7 At Shepherd's Bush; 8 Francis Fidge; 9 Godsmark; 10 A Face in a Crowd; 11 Constable Rogers Has an Idea; 12 At Norfolk Street; 13 Jacob's Island; 14 Alice Drown; 15 A Pair of Black Eyes; 16 Blackledge; 17 Memory; 18 Lantern Yard; 19 Brick Holes; 20 Rake's Progress; 21 Missing; 22 A Present for a Good Girl; 23 The Actor; 24 Footsteps in the Fog; 25 Jonas Finger; 26 Who is He?; 27 Pursuit; 28 The Fall; Epilogue; Historical Note; About the Author.