The Secrets of Gaslight Lane: The Gower Street Detective: Book 4 (Gower Street Detectives)

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The new novel in the atmospheric Gower Street Detective series introduces a chilling locked room mystery to Detective Sidney Grice and his precocious ward March Middleton. London 1883. All is quiet at 125 Gower Street. Private detective Sidney Grice is studying up on the anatomical structure of human hair whilst his ward March Middleton sneaks upstairs for her eighth secret cigarette of the day. The household is perhaps too quiet. So when a beautiful young woman turns up at the door imploring Londons foremost private detective to solve the mystery of her fathers murder Grice can barely disguise his glee. Mr. Nathan Garstang was found slaughtered in his bed but there is no trace of a weapon or intruder. A classic locked-room case. But what piques Grices interest is the crimes link to one of Londons most notorious unsolved murders. Ten years ago Nathans uncle aunt and servants were murdered in their sleep in the very same house. Now it seems the Garstang murderer is back...