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Dead Born: A Detective Sergeant Best Mystery 2
Dead Born: A Detective Sergeant Best Mystery 2
Dead Born: A Detective Sergeant Best Mystery 2
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When the bodies of a number of babies are found scattered around Islington, Detective Sergeant Best is sent undercover to lodge next door to a suspected baby farm. He shadows an alleged 'child dropper' onto a Thames pleasure steamer and finds himself caught up in Britain's worst civilian tragedy — the 1878 sinking of the Princess Alice — a horrific experience which will haunt Best forever. Meanwhile, his determination to avenge the death of a young girl he had befriended and save the life of another becomes a crusade.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 1, 2013
ISBN9780752489322
Dead Born: A Detective Sergeant Best Mystery 2
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Joan Lock

Ex-nurse and policewoman Joan Lock has written seven Victorian crime fiction titles and eight non-fiction police/crime books, including three on Scotland Yard's first detectives. She has also written short stories, radio plays and radio documentaries, as well as working as a columnist on the leading police journal, Police Review, and Red Herrings, the magazine of the Crime Writers Association.

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