Book description
London, 1850. Fog in the air and filth in the streets, from the
rat-infested graveyard of Tom-All-Alone's to the elegant chambers in
Lincoln's Inn Fields, where the formidable lawyer Edward Tulkinghorn
has powerful clients to protect, and a deadly secret to hide. Only
that secret is now under threat from a shadowy and unseen adversary -
an adversary who must be tracked down at all costs, before it's too late.
Who better for such a task than young Charles Maddox? Unfairly
dismissed from the police force, Charles is struggling to establish
himself as a private detective. Only business is slow and his one case
a dead end, so when Tulkinghorn offers a handsome price for an
apparently simple job Charles is unable to resist. But as he soon
discovers, nothing here is what it seems. An assignment that starts
with anonymous letters leads soon to a brutal murder, as the
investigation lures Charles ever deeper into the terrible darkness
Tulkinghorn will stop at nothing to conceal.
Inspired by Charles Dickens' masterpiece Bleak House,
Tom-All-Alone's is a new and gripping Victorian murder mystery which
immerses the reader in a grim London underworld that Dickens could
only hint at - a world in which girls as young as ten work the night
as prostitutes, unwanted babies are ruthlessly disposed of, and those
who threaten the rank and reputations of great men are eliminated at
once, and without remorse.
