Maude Horton's glorious revenge / Lizzie Pook.
Publication details: Hawthorn, VIC : Viking Australia, 2024.Description: 323 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781761043406
- 1761043404
- Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Revenge -- Fiction
- Criminals -- England -- London -- History -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Siblings -- Fiction
- London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Arctic regions -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction
- UK & IRL historical fiction
- 823.92 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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New book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | POO | Available | 072968 |
Includes bibliographical references.
London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared. Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the apothecary they call home and, disguised as a boy, boarded a ship bound for the Arctic. She never returned. 'A tragic accident', the Admiralty called it. But Maude Horton knows something isn't right. When she finds Constance's journal, it becomes clear that the truth is being buried by sinister forces. To find answers and deliver justice for her sister, Maude must step into London's dark underbelly, and into the path of dangerous, powerful men. The kind of men who seek their fortune in the city's horrors, from the hangings at Newgate to the ghoulish waxworks of Madame Tussaud's. It is a perilous task. But Maude has dangerous skills of her own.