Bibliograph

Type

Label

The blood, E.S. Thomson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-476)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The blood

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1076373057

Responsibility statement

E.S. Thomson

Series statement

A Jem Flockhart mystery

Summary

"Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain endeavor to solve a dark and terrible new mystery in a hunt that takes them through the harrowing streets of Victorian London to the dangers of the seamen's floating hospital known only as The Blood"--, Provided by publisherJem Flockhart and Will Quartermain identify a link between a suicide and a prostitute's drowning death in a floating hospital that has dark ties to a private anatomy school and the opium dens of the waterfrontSummoned to the riverside by the desperate note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves onboard the seamen's floating hospital, an old hulk known only as The Blood. On shore a young woman, a known prostitute, is found drowned in a derelict boatyard. A man leaps to his death into the Thames, driven mad by poison and fear. The events are linked-- but how? Jem and Will's hunt for the truth takes them from the dissecting tables of a private anatomy school to the squalor of the dock-side mortuary. -- adapted from jacket

Target audience

adult

Classification