Description
Book SynopsisBestselling author Sinclair McKay gives a gripping account of a murder in the heart of Victorian London, which intrigued and scandalised Bloomsbury society.
Table of ContentsPreface – The Dislocation of the Dead
1 The Day Before
2 ‘There Is Something in the Cellar’
3 The Man from X Division
4 A City of Disappearances
5 ‘I Am Not a Judge of Human Bones’
6 Superior Apartments in a Quiet Home
7 ‘A Mass of Light-Coloured Ringlets’
8 The Canterbury Dolls
9 The Book of Dreams
10 ‘No, Not Me’
11 The Brothers Bastendorff
12 The New Age of Light
13 He Kept Company with Her
14 The Boiling Bones
15 ‘Everything Was Sweet’
16 ‘It Was Not My Place’
17 ‘Working Women Like Herself’
18 Avowed Admirers
19 ‘The Expected Child’
20 ‘Oh God! What a Sight Met My Gaze!’
21 She Had No Character
22 ‘I Have Disgraced You Before all the Country’
23 ‘I Depend Upon My Character’
24 ‘Such a Strange, Brotherly Part’
25 Disintegration
26 A Length of Washing Line
27 The Stain That Would Not Go
Notes
Picture Credits
Afterword: A Bloomsbury and Somers Town Walk
Afterword Two: Illustrated Murder and Mayhem! – The Victorian Press
Selected Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Biography
