The Last Pleasure Garden
Subtitle: Desire. Death. Corruption...The Dark Heart of Victorian London...
Publisher: William Heinemann
Published: May 23, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780434012497
Description: "A sinister figure stalks the gas-lit groves of Cremorne Gardens, the last pleasure-ground on the banks of the Thames. His weapon, a sharp pair of scissors. His victims, young women in the first bloom of youth. His crime - merely to remove a lock of their hair." "Inspector Decimus Webb of Scotland Yard suspects a harmless lunatic is at large. But when morbid obsession turns to murder, even Webb's loyal sergeant begins to doubt his judgement." "As the press and his superiors clamour for answers, Webb's investigations lead him to Rose Perfitt, aspiring debutante and daughter of a respectable stock-broker. Will she fall prey to 'The Cutter' or does a worse fate beckon?"--BOOK JACKET.