Vices of My Blood

Zusatztext  • "Exciting . . . . Full of passion about the seedy abuses of Victorian society. I couldn't put it down." - Hamilton Spectator  • "Mystery lovers can be assured that the culprit is plausible! the clues fair! the tea strong and the pace brisk." - Globe and Mail  • "Jennings immerses her readers in the Toronto of the 1890s. The smells! sights! and sounds she describes ring as true as if she were recounting a trip she'd made there last week." - Quill & Quire Informationen zum Autor MAUREEN JENNINGS was born in the UK and emigrated to Canada as a teenager. After a long career as a psychotherapist, she became an award-winning writer. She is the author of four series in the crime fiction genre—Christine Morris, Tom Tyler, Murdoch Mysteries, and Charlotte Frayne P.I.—as well as a book on creativity, one novella, and four plays. The Murdoch Mystery series has been adapted into the beloved television series Murdoch Mysteries shown in over 120 territories worldwide, and the Tom Tyler series served as the inspiration for the television series Bomb Girls . In 2011, Jennings was the recipient of the Grant Allen Award for her contribution to Canadian crime writing. She lives in Toronto with her husband and their dog, Murdoch. Klappentext The Reverend Charles Howard once sat in judgment of Toronto's poor and assessed their applications for the workhouse. Now he has been found dead: stabbed! beaten! and robbed of his watch and boots. Is it simply a case of burglary gone wrong! or has one of the unfortunates the reverend turned away taken their revenge on him? Detective Murdoch's investigation takes him deep into the Dickensian world of Toronto's workhouses and the destitute souls who fill them as he sets out to discover who really murdered the reverend. CHAPTER ONE William Murdoch had recently been promoted from acting to full detective and given a raise in wages of three dollars a month. But his new status was not reflected by a better office, and from his desk he was contemplating the same old furnishings of a battered metal filing cabinet and a visitor’s chair that the rag-­and-­bones man would have rejected. The walls, he noticed, would benefit greatly from a fresh coat of paint, as he was wont to use the one wall as a blackboard and the chalk marks never quite rubbed off. He needed a new lamp, or at least some better oil, as the one on his desk was smoking badly. Having made this gloomy assessment, he took a gulp of the hot strong tea that he’d brought in from the duty room and got back to his task. He dipped his pen into the inkwell. He had a fine working fountain pen in his pocket, but he ­couldn’t bring himself to write a letter to his absent mistress with a pen his beloved deceased fiancée had given him. Dear Enid. I ­haven’t yet received a letter from you, but I hope that is only because of the bad weather and not because you ­don’t want to write to me. How is your father faring? He paused. That last line seemed ridiculously stiff. But he’d have to leave it. This was the third draft he’d started. Oh just cross out faring , for Christ’s sake. How is your father? I do hope his health is improving. Of course, the reason she had not written could be because her father had died. If that was the case he wondered if she would return to Canada. And then he wondered how he would feel about that if she did. It had been almost two months since she had been summoned back to Wales to take care of her ailing parent. This had been the primary and acknowledged reason for her departure, but they both knew that sitting just behind it was Murdoch’s inability to make up his mind to marry her. Another dip in the ink and he made a large blot on the page. Damn. These pens were police issue and leaked badly. His fingers were stained already. T...

Product details

• Authors: Maureen Jennings
• Publisher: Random House Canada
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.2013
• EAN: 9780771046780
• ISBN: 978-0-7710-4678-0
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 203 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Murdoch Mysteries; Murdoch Mysteries; Detective Murdoch Mysteries
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense