Under the Dragon's Tail
Desperate women, rich and poor, come to her in 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 and greed leaves them resentful and angry. So it comes as no surprise when...
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Desperate women, rich and poor, come to her in 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 and greed leaves them resentful and angry. So it comes as no surprise 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, Detective Murdoch isn't sure if he's hunting one murderer - or two.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780771095979 (077109597X)
ASIN: 077109597X
Publish date: September 18th 2012
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Pages no: 320
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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