Last Nocturne (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781780291307)

Private detectives Grand & Batchelor's latest case draws them into the arcane world of high art and high society in this compelling Victorian mystery. London. May, 1878. Private enquiry agents Matthew Grand and James Batchelor have been hired by the artist James Whistler to dig into the past of outspoken critic John Ruskin, with whom he has an ongoing feud. Not particularly optimistic of success, the two detectives are sidetracked from the investigation by the murder of a prostitute in nearby Cremorne Gardens. Her body posed on a park bench, a book on birth control sitting on her lap, Clara Jenkins is not the first young woman to have met a similarly grisly fate - and she won't be the last. Could there be a connection between the Cremorne killer and their art world case? With the investigation heading nowhere fast, Grand comes up with a decidedly unorthodox plan to ensnare the killer. But even the best-laid plans have a nasty habit of going catastrophically awry ...

Author: M. J. Trow
ISBN-10: 1780291302
ISBN-13: 9781780291307
Publisher: Severn House
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2020
Publishers Weekly 01/04/2021
Booklist 02/01/2021 pg. 22