Portrait of peril, a Victorian mystery, Laura Joh Rowland
Type
Label
Portrait of peril, a Victorian mystery, Laura Joh Rowland
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Portrait of peril
Oclc number
1228129082
Responsibility statement
Laura Joh Rowland
Series statement
Victorian mysteries
Sub title
a Victorian mystery
Summary
"London, October 1890. Crime scene photographer Sarah Bain is overjoyed to marry her beloved Detective Sergeant Barrett--but the wedding takes a sinister turn when the body of a stabbing victim is discovered in the crypt of the church. Not every newlywed couple begins their marriage with a murder investigation, but Sarah and Barrett, along with their friends Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly, take the case."--, Publisher's descriptionLondon, October 1890. Crime scene photographer Sarah Bain is marrying Detective Sergeant Barrett, but the wedding takes a sinister turn when the body of a stabbing victim is discovered in the crypt of the church. The dead man is Charles Firth, a "spirit photographer". When Sarah develops the photographs he took in the church, one shows a pale, blurred figure attacking Firth. A ghost? But the victim had plenty of enemies in the human world-- and the path to the truth leads into Sarah's own sordid family history. -- adapted from jacket
Target audience
adult
Creator
Subject
Content
Author
Is Part Of
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject8
- Content1
- Author1
- Is Part Of1
- Mapped to1