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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Immergetevi nelle strade nebbiose della Londra vittoriana, dove il discorso intellettuale si scontra con un'oscura malavita criminale. Questa serie vi tuffa in avvincenti indagini sullo sfondo di intrighi sociali e della pervasiva influenza dell'oppio. Seguite alleanze improbabili mentre navigano nel complesso panorama morale per scoprire oscuri segreti che si nascondono sotto la superficie della rispettabilità.
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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.