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A01=Donald Thomas
Author_Donald Thomas
British Crime Writer
British detective
British Library Classics
Category=FF
Classic crime fiction
cosy crime
Endeavour
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Golden Age Detective Fiction
if you like Agatha Christie
if you like Anthony Gilbert
if you like Dorothy L Sayers
if you like Lord Peter Wimsey
if you like Midsomer Murders
if you like Miss Marple
if you like Poirot
Inspector Swain
Jessica Fellowes
Mitford Murders
murder
noir crime fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781471904325
- Weight: 41g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2013
- Publisher: The Murder Room
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the slum alleys of Lambeth in 1891 a sinister silk-hatted figure lurks in the shadows - but trade is there for the taking and a girl must make a living. Now, one after another, the girls who work the Waterloo Road wake in the morning to feel the slow agony of the most vicious of poisons ...victims of the man called Fred. The police have only a string of 'catch me if you can' letters to taunt them, whilea whole mailing list of Victorian worthies find demands for money with menaces in their mail. Inspector Swain investigates ...'Original story told in a highly individual manner' Times Literary Supplement
Donald Thomas was born in Somerset and educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and Balliol College, Oxford. He holds a personal chair in the University of Wales, Cardiff, now Cardiff University. His numerous crime novels include two collections of Sherlock Holmes stories and a hugely successful historical detective series written under the pen name Francis Selwyn and featuring Sergeant Verity of Scotland Yard, as well as gritty police procedurals written under the name of Richard Dacre. He is also the author of seven biographies and a number of other non-fiction works, and won the Gregory Prize for his poems, Points of Contact. He lives in Bath with his wife.
