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Thomas De Quincey

Plongez dans les rues embrumées du Londres victorien, où le discours intellectuel se heurte à une sombre pègre criminelle. Cette série vous plonge dans des enquêtes palpitantes sur fond d'intrigues sociales et de l'influence omniprésente de l'opium. Suivez des alliances improbables alors qu'elles naviguent dans le paysage moral complexe pour découvrir des secrets sombres qui se cachent sous la surface de la respectabilité.

Inspector of the Dead
Ruler of the Night
Murder as a Fine Art

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  1. 1

    The notorious author Thomas De Quincey turns detective in a harrowing Victorian thriller from master storyteller David Morrell, which won the Macavity Award for Best Historical Mystery 2014.

    Murder as a Fine Art
  2. 2

    The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The British government has fallen. The Empire seems to be hanging from a thread. Then the murders start. members of London's elite are found dead with names of assassin's who have failed to kill Queen Victoria. Based on actual attempts to kill Queen Victoria, Inspector of the dead brilliantly merges fact with fiction to bring a violent era of Victorian England to life.

    Inspector of the Dead
  3. 3

    In the third Victorian mystery from prizewinning author David Morrell, the notorious Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey investigates a truly unprecedented murder - the first to ever take place on the railways.

    Ruler of the Night