A metropolitan murder
By: by Lee Jackson.
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Inspector Decimus Webb's investigation of the murder of a young woman, abandoned in a second-class carriage, leads him through the slums of Victorian London to a home for 'fallen women' and to Clara White. He must then decide whether she is merely a victim of circumstances, or a prime suspect.