The anatomist's apprentice
By: Tessa Harris
Series: A Dr. Thomas Silkstone mystery
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780758266989
Subjects: Social life and customs; Private investigators; Murder; Investigation; Physicians; History; Fiction
Description: The death of Sir Edward Crick has unleashed a torrent of gossip through the seedy taverns and elegant ballrooms of Oxfordshire. Few mourn the dissolute young man- except his sister, the beautiful Lady Lydia Farrell. When her husband comes under suspicion of murder, she seeks expert help from Dr. Thomas Silkstone, a young anatomist from Philadelphia. Thomas arrived in England to study under its foremost surgeon, where his unconventional methods only add to his outsider status. Against his better judgment he agrees to examine Sir Edward's corpse. But it is not only the dead, but also the living, to whom he must apply the keen blade of his intellect. And the deeper the doctor's investigations go, the greater the risk that he will be consigned to the ranks of the corpses he studies.