The notorious author Thomas De Quincey turns detective in a harrowing Victorian thriller from master storyteller David Morrell, which won the Macavity Award for Best Historical Mystery 2014.
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Adéntrate en las brumosas calles del Londres victoriano, donde el discurso intelectual choca con un sombrío submundo criminal. Esta serie te sumerge en emocionantes investigaciones ambientadas en un telón de fondo de intrigas sociales y la influencia omnipresente del opio. Sigue alianzas improbables mientras navegan por el complejo panorama moral para descubrir oscuros secretos que acechan bajo la superficie de la respetabilidad.
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The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The British government has fallen. The Empire seems to be hanging from a thread. Then the murders start. members of London's elite are found dead with names of assassin's who have failed to kill Queen Victoria. Based on actual attempts to kill Queen Victoria, Inspector of the dead brilliantly merges fact with fiction to bring a violent era of Victorian England to life.
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In the third Victorian mystery from prizewinning author David Morrell, the notorious Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey investigates a truly unprecedented murder - the first to ever take place on the railways.