MURDER MYSTERY, REAL LIFE CRIME, TOPOGRAPHY,
RARE, SECOND HAND, OUT OF PRINT, BOOKS & PRINTS

It’s 1981, the physician James Mortimer and his new wife, Violet Branscombe, have just returned from a late honeymoon on the Nile and the London papers are full of the brutal murder of Russian politico General Ostyankin. Solomon Solomons, a young East End revolutionary with a violent past, has already been condemned for the crime, and as far as the authorities are concerned, it’s an open-and-shut case. Solomon’s sweetheart, on the other hand, is convinced of his innocence and asks Dr. Mortimer to intervene. How can Mortimer say no when, after a nasty incident a few months earlier, Violet owes her life to the distraught young woman?

Mortimer, curious and absent-minded, and Branscombe, unflappable and impulsive, make a most engaging couple in this classic whodunit which brings Victorian London brilliantly to life and challenges the reader at every turn.

Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.
New York 2001
ISBN: 0-7867-0859-X
NEW Hardback
270 Pages
13.8 x 22.2cm

£12.50