The Black Country
By: Alex Grecian
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print core; Thorndike Press large print core series
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
ISBN-13: 9781410458810
Subjects: Detectives; Murder; Investigation; Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office; Coal mines and mining; Great Britain; Villages; Rural crimes; Fiction
Description: The British Midlands is called the "Black Country" for a reason. Bad things happen there. It's 1890 and when members of a prominent family disappear from a coal-mining village and a human eyeball turns up in a bird's nest, the local constable sends for help from Scotland Yard's new Murder Squad. Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith respond, with no idea what they're about to get into. The villagers have intense, intertwined histories. And the village itself is slowly sinking into the mines beneath it. Not even the arrival of forensics pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley seems to help. In fact, the more the three of them investigate, the more they realize they may never be allowed to leave.
Notes: "A novel of Scotland Yard's muder squad"--Cover.