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White stone day / John MacLachlan Gray.

Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.G753 W48 2005
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gray, John, 1946-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Journalists--Fiction.
Journalists.
Psychics.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities.
Psychics--Crimes against--Fiction.
Oxford (England)--Fiction.
Oxford (England).
Pornography--Fiction.
Pornography.
Clergy--Fiction.
Clergy.
Genre:
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Physical Description:
285 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005.
Summary:
Edmund Whitty, A London Newspaper correspondent who can usually be counted upon for crisp and lurid copy, has fallen on lean times. After his triumphant expose of a notorious serial killer, he has inexplicably lost his knack for sensational reporting. Broke and desperate, he seizes upon a generous offer from a mysterious American to discredit a quack psychic. But how, he ends up wondering uneasily, does the psychic know so much about a scandal involving Whitty's late brother?
When the psychic is brutally murdered, Whitty finds himself accused of the crime and thrown into Milbank prison, the most bizarre institution of its kind in England. Help comes unexpectedly from "the Captain," a gangster not known for charity work. To save his own skin, Whitty must find the men responsible for the disappearance of the Captain's young niece, Eliza.
Whitty's search takes him to Oxford, where he meets the brilliant and eccentric Reverend William Boltbyn, a renowned children's author who delights in playing croquet, devising elaborate stories, and taking artistic photographs of little girls. There he uncovers a looking-glass world, the dark side of Victoriana, and the murder of innocence.
John MacLachlan Gray, who evoked "the mean streets and byways of 1852 London with a skill worthy of Dickens" (Publishers Weekly) in The Fiend in Human, spins an even more irresistible tale of dark secrets behind the facade of Victorian respectability.
Contents:
Chapter 1 Crouch Manor, Chester Wolds, Oxfordshire, 1858 1
Chapter 2 Whitechapel, London 7
Chapter 3 The Alhambra Baths, Endell Street 10
Chapter 4 Crouch Manor 22
Chapter 5 Fleet Street, west of Ludgate 28
Chapter 6 Bissett Grange, Oxfordshire 35
Chapter 7 Plant's Inn 40
Chapter 8 5 Buckingham Gate 44
Chapter 9 Plant's Inn 53
Chapter 10 Eastcheap 56
Chapter 11 The Falcon 60
Chapter 12 The Pith and Paradox 63
Chapter 13 Bissett Grange 75
Chapter 14 Crouch Manor 83
Chapter 15 Millbank Prison 86
Chapter 16 New Scotland Yard, off Parliament Street 92
Chapter 17 The Alhambra Baths 95
Chapter 18 Crouch Manor 102
Chapter 19 The Hen and Hatchet, Houndsditch 108
Chapter 20 Crouch Manor 112
Chapter 21 The Hen and Hatchet 116
Chapter 22 The Hen and Hatchet 125
Chapter 23 The Falcon 128
Chapter 24 Bissett Grange 131
Chapter 25 The Hen and Hatchet 143
Chapter 26 Crouch Manor 146
Chapter 27 Plant's Inn 148
Chapter 28 Bissett Grange 154
Chapter 29 The Pith and Paradox 156
Chapter 30 Bissett Grange 161
Chapter 31 Machpelah Square, Mesopotamia 163
Chapter 32 Bissett Grange 164
Chapter 33 Machpelah Square 173
Chapter 34 Crouch Manor 182
Chapter 35 Crouch Manor 185
Chapter 36 The Thames 187
Chapter 37 Bissett Grange 190
Chapter 38 The Thames 191
Chapter 39 Bissett Grange 193
Chapter 40 Crouch Manor 195
Chapter 41 Iffley Lock, Oxfordshire 203
Chapter 42 Town of Oxford 212
Chapter 43 The Roland Stones 214
Chapter 44 Town of Oxford 217
Chapter 45 St Ambrose College, Oxford 224
Chapter 46 Bissett Grange 232
Chapter 47 Town of Oxford 244
Chapter 48 Bissett Grange 248
Chapter 49 The Roland Stones 252
Chapter 50 Bissett Grange 259
Chapter 51 The Wood 273
Chapter 52 Bissett Grange 274
Chapter 53 Bissett Grange 278
Chapter 54 The Alhambra Baths 281.
Notes:
Originally published: London : Century, 2005.
ISBN:
0312282931
OCLC:
61240687
Publisher Number:
9780312282936

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