Last Nocturne (A Grand & Batchelor Victorian mystery)

by M.J. Trow

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Private detectives Grand & Batchelor's latest case draws them into the arcane world of high art and high society in this compelling Victorian mystery.

London. May, 1878. Private enquiry agents Matthew Grand and James Batchelor have been hired by the artist James Whistler to dig into the past of outspoken critic John Ruskin, with whom he has an ongoing feud. Not particularly optimistic of success, the two detectives are sidetracked from the investigation by the murder of a prostitute in nearby Cremorne Gardens. Her body posed on a park bench, a book on birth control sitting on her lap, Clara...

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  • ISBN10 1780291302
  • ISBN13 9781780291307
  • Publish Date 31 December 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
  • Imprint Severn House
  • Edition Main
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English