Under the Dragon's Tail
Women rich and poor come to her, desperate and in dire need of help – and discretion. Dolly Merishaw is a midwife and an abortionist in Victorian Toronto, but although she keeps quiet about her clients’ condition, her contempt for them and her greed leaves every one of them resentful and angry....
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Women rich and poor come to her, desperate and in dire need of help – and discretion. Dolly Merishaw is a midwife and an abortionist in Victorian Toronto, but although she keeps quiet about her clients’ condition, her contempt for them and her greed leaves every one of them resentful and angry. So it comes as no surprise to Detective William Murdoch when this malicious woman is murdered. What is a shock, though, is that a week later a young boy is found dead in Dolly’s squalid kitchen. Now, Murdoch isn’t sure if he’s hunting one murderer – or two.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780771043994 (0771043996)
Publish date: May 10th 2005
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Series: Detective Murdoch (#2)
I am a big fan of "The Artful Detective"/"Murdoch Mysteries" television series, and when I noticed these books mentioned in the credits, I asked my library for every one they had. There are seven altogether, of which I received three."Under the Dragon's Tail" is the second of the novels. Acting-Dete...
I don't know how I felt about the mysteries in this volume of the Detective Murdoch series, but I really do enjoy the way the books look at the underbelly of Victorian Toronto juxtaposed against the city's upper class. I like that Detective Murdoch is not necessarily the stiff, formal, proper Vic...
I first came across Detective Murdoch when watching television while in Toronto. Recently the series has made its way onto American cable via the Ovation network and under the title The Artful Detective. Murdoch is a Catholic in the Protestant city of Toronto, at the end of the 1800...
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