The great stink
By: Clare Clark
Edition: 1st Harvest ed.
Series: A Harvest book; Harvest book
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Orlando, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780156030885
Subjects: Underground areas; Ragpickers; Sewerage; Crimean War, 1853-1856; Veterans; Fiction
Description: It is 1855, and engineer William May has returned home to London and his beloved wife from the horrors of the Crimean War. When he secures a job transforming the city's sewer system, he believes it will prove his salvation, as, in the subterranean world beneath the city, he begins to lay his ghosts to rest. But when the peace of the tunnels is shattered by a violent murder William loses his tenuous hold on his sanity. Implicated in the crime, plagued by nightmares and visions, he is no longer sure: Could he truly have committed it? Long Arm Tom, a tosher, is William's only hope of salvation.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd."--T.p.verso.