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The house on Vesper Sands : a novel / Paraic O'Donnell.

by O'Donnell, Paraic.

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Tin House, 2021.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

O'Donnell, Paraic. Inspector Cutter series ; 1.

9781951142247 (hc.)

403 p. ; 23 cm.

"London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world of Paraic O'Donnell's Victorian-inspired mystery, the story of a city cloaked in shadow, but burning with questions: why does the seamstress jump from the window? Why is a cryptic message stitched into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances? On the case is Inspector Cutter, a detective as sharp and committed to his work as he is wryly hilarious. Gideon Bliss, a Cambridge dropout in love with one of the missing girls, stumbles into a role as Cutter's sidekick. And clever young journalist Octavia Hillingdon sees the case as a chance to tell a story that matters-despite her employer's preference that she stick to a women's society column. As Inspector Cutter peels back the mystery layer by layer, he leads them all, at last, to the secrets that lie hidden at the house on Vesper Sands"--Publisher.

Mystery fiction.

Historical mystery fiction.

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