Title: The water room
Description: How can an elderly recluse drown in a chair in her otherwise dry basement? That's what John May and Arthur Bryant of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit set out to discover in a city rife with shady real estate developers, racist threats, dodgy academicians, and someone dangerously obsessed with Egyptian mythology.
Subjects: Collection and preservation, Older women, Police, Drowning victims, Antiquities, Crimes against, Fiction, Real estate development, London (england), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: England, London