Inspector of the Dead
By: David Morrell
Series: A Thomas De Quincey mystery
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781444781373; 9781444781366
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: The year is 1855. The Crimean war is raging. The British government has fallen. The Empire itself hangs in the balance. Into this crisis comes Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious personalities of Victorian England. Along with his irrepressible daughter Emily and their Scotland Yard companions, Ryan and Becker, he finds himself confronted by an adversary who aims to strike at the heart of the nation.