Sherlock Holmes and the Vanishing Girls of West Ham
Titan Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-83541-843-7 (ISBN)
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It is 15 February 1890, and Doctor Watson receives a summons from his old friend Sherlock Holmes, telling him to meet him in West Ham, a shabby district of East London. When Watson arrives at a disused property on West Street, he is met by Holmes, Inspector Lestrade and Lestrade's former protege Inspector Drake, who now heads up the Metropolitan Police's K Division, which oversees the district of Stepney.
In the house, Drake leads them to a cupboard in which is concealed the partially decomposed body of a girl. He tells them he's pretty sure it's Amelia Jeffs, a 14 year old from West Street who disappeared a couple of weeks ago on her way to buy a fried-fish supper for her family. After Watson confirms the girl has been strangled and estimates she was killed around two weeks ago, Drake reveals that two other teenage girls from the same street, Mary Seward and Eliza Carter, disappeared in 1881 and 1882 respectively.
This is the starting point for the great detective's descent into a sinister world of child abductions, which always involve the victim being seen with a 'hideous old woman' prior to their disappearance. The investigation takes Holmes and Watson to some extremely dark places: to a post office in East London in which the body of a girl is found stuffed into a box; to the pubs of the East End, where rumours of a trafficking gang abound; and to the brothels of Belgium, where English girls who've been snatched from the streets are put to work against their will.
But will Sherlock Holmes ever be able to fully discover what really happened to the vanishing girls of West Ham, and solve one of Victorian London's greatest real-life unsolved crimes?
Phil Lecomber was born on the outskirts of South East London. Although he now resides in the beautiful city of Bath, he has spent most of his working life in the capital, in a variety of occupations. Phil's diverse career has included time as a musician performing in the city's clubs, pubs, and dives; a steel-fixer working on the towering edifices of the Square Mile; and a designer of stained-glass windows. For 35 years, he worked in Mayfair at the internationally renowned fine art auction house Sotheby's, where he oversaw electronic security for some of the world's most valuable works of art. His debut novel, Midnight Streets - the first in the Piccadilly Noir series - was published in spring 2025. The second in the series, The Devil's Banquet, is set for release in 2026. All of which, of course, has provided wonderful material for a novelist's inspiration. Always an avid reader, a chance encounter as a teenager with a Gerald Kersh short story led to a fascination with the 'Morbid Age'-the years between the wars. The world that Phil has created for the Piccadilly Noir series is the result of the consumption and distillation of myriad contemporary novels, films, historical accounts, biographies and slang dictionaries of the 1920/30s-with a nod here and there to some of the real-life colourful characters that he's had the pleasure of rubbing shoulders with over the years.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.9.2027 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 130 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83541-843-0 / 1835418430 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83541-843-7 / 9781835418437 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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