Inspector of the Dead

It is February 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The government has just fallen. The British Empire teeters. Amid this crisis, the novel reintroduces Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious and brilliant personalities of Victorian England. Along with his irrepressible daughter Emily, and their S [...]
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It is February 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The government has just fallen. The British Empire teeters. Amid this crisis, the novel reintroduces Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious and brilliant personalities of Victorian England. Along with his irrepressible daughter Emily, and their Scotland Yard companions, Ryan and Becker, he again finds himself confronted by a killer with good reason to strike back against the state. Someone is murdering upstanding members of the elite, leaving with each corpse the name of a man who had previously attempted to assassinate the Queen. It falls to De Quincey and Emily to stop the murders before the killer completes his cycle and sets his sights on his ultimate target - Queen Victoria herself.