(Ebook) The Quickening and the Dead (Superintendent Jones and Charles Dickens investigate 4) by J. C. Briggs ISBN 9781912786893, 9781912786886, 1912786893, 1912786885

(Ebook) The Quickening and the Dead (Superintendent Jones and Charles Dickens investigate 4) by J. C. Briggs ISBN 9781912786893, 9781912786886, 1912786893, 1912786885

Three girls, three deaths — but what connects them…? London, 1850 Lavinia Gray vanishes on the eve of her wedding and is found drowned. Evie Finch dies of septicaemia in a filthy lodging house. Annie Deverall, a fifteen-year-old milliner’s apprentice is on remand in Newgate, accused of murdering the Doctor Lancelot Plume. Three young girls' lives have been ruined, but could they be connected somehow?Charles Dickens visits Annie and is immediately convinced of her innocence. He enlists the help of Superintendent Sam Jones to find the real murderer before Annie goes to trial.How are the three girls linked to Plume? And if Annie didn’t kill him, who did? What Charles Dickens uncovers will shock him to his very core… The Quickening and the Dead is the fourth urban mystery in J. C. Briggs’ literary historical series, the Charles Dickens investigations, a traditional British detective series set in Victorian London.‘Briggs has captured Dickens’ gift of caricature and sense of the ludicrous side of life. That, taken with the social comment, still as relevant as when he was writing, plus a modern plot, make this a story well worth reading’ — Crime Review