Title: A metropolitan murder
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Social conditions, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, London (england), fiction
Places: London (England)
Time periods: 19th century