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The Last Pleasure Garden

By Lee Jackson

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The Last Pleasure Garden

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A sinister figure stalks the gas-lit groves of Cremorne Gardens the last pleasure-ground on the banks of the Thames. His weapon a sharp pair of scissors. His victims young women in the first bloom of youth. HIs crime - merely to remove a lock of their hair. Inspector Decimus Webb of Scotland Yard suspects a harmless lunatic is at large. But when morbid obsession turns to murder even Webb's loyal sergeant begins to doubt his judgement.
As the press and his superiors clamour for answers Webb's investigations lead him to Rose Perfitt aspiring debutante and daughter of a respectable stock-broker. Will she fall prey to 'The Cutter' or does a worse fate beckon? One thing is certain - only Decimus Webb can save her.
Lee Jackson's third Inspector Webb novel takes the reader into the forgotten world of the Victorian pleasure-garden in a gripping mystery of garish gas-light and dark secrets.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
322
Release Date:
2007-02-01
Publication Date:
2007-02-01
Publisher:
Arrow
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0099469243
ISBN13:
9780099469247
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
385 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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