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Anne Perry

Set in Victorian England, private investigative agent William Monk is once again searching for the invisible. He is begged by young Lucius Stourbridge to find his missing fiancee, Mariam Gardiner, who suddenly and in inexplicably ran from an afternoon croquette party at the Bayswater mansion of her in-laws-to-be. The coachman who drove her that day is found the following day near the path to the cottage of Cleo Anderson. Miriam is arrested for Treadwell's murder. Further investigation reveals that Cleo raised Miriam since the age of twelve. Further, Treadwell has been blackmailing Cleo for several years for taking medicines from the hospital apothecary for her aging homebound patients. Now Cleo is arrested and Miriam is released. Neither Miriam nor Cleo will tell anything, only denying the murdered anyone. Then a third murder occurs, at Bayswater, where Miriam had been released to Stourbridges' care. It is an entwining story and very enlightening of social attitudes and practices of the time. Sir Oliver Rathbone pursues the truth in court with Monk's wife, Hester, a driving force

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Sarah Pinborough

"In this ... sequel to ... Mayhem, author Sarah Pinborough continues the adventures of troubled Victorian forensics expert Dr. Thomas Bond. Haunted by the nerve-shattering events he endured during the Jack the Ripper and Thames Torso Killer investigations, Dr. Bond is trying to reestablish the normal routines of daily life. Aiding in his recovery is the growing possibility that his long-held affections for the recently widowed Juliana Harrington might finally be reciprocated. ... Soon, however, a new suitor arrives in London, challenging the doctor's claims on Juliana's happiness. Worse, it seems the evil creature that Dr. Bond had wrestled with during the Ripper and Torso Killer investigations is back and stronger than ever"--Amazon.com.

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Ann L. Ardis and Patrick Collier

The turn of the twentieth century saw a sea change in the world of Anglo-American book, newspaper, and periodical publishing. More newspapers, magazines, and books were published annually than ever before, and many of these were reaching wider--and different--groups of readers, as population growth and literacy rates soared in both countries. The visuality of periodicals was also changing dramatically: with improvements in printing technology and variations in layout, periodicals were becoming increasingly complex visual texts. Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880-1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms maps this radically transforming print ecology. Building on recent work on Victorian print culture as well as the turn toward material historical research in modernist studies, the historians, media historians, and literary scholars who contribute to this collection extend the frontiers of scholarship on the ₃Atlantic scene₄ of English-language publishing as they imagine, elucidate, and practice new ways of grappling with this expanding and changing universe of printing.

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Gillian Beer

This text demonstrates how Darwin overturned fundamental cultural assumptions in his narratives, how George Eliot and other writers pursued and resisted their contradictory implications in their writings.