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When the body of small-time crook Mickey Parfitt washes up on the tide, no one grieves. But William Monk, commander of the Thames River Police, is puzzled by the expensive silk cravat used to strangle Parfitt. Informers lead Monk to what may be a partial answer - a floating palace of corruption on the Thames managed by Parfitt, where a captive band of half-starved boys are forced to perform vile acts. Further investigation takes Monk and his wife,...
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[2010]
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Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the trail of an enigma: a young man called Mr Fox. But his identity is false, his links to society are invisible and his home yields no clues. All they know is that somehow he escaped from a locked room and murdered one of their best and brightest. Now the detectives are being lured down into the darkest recesses of the London Underground where their quarry, expertly disguised, has struck...
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2018
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La apasionante nueva novela de Perry protagonizada por Charlotte y Thomas Pitt nos invita a regresar al Londres victoriano, donde la codicia y la ambición nunca duermen y las pasiones a veces se desbocan.El siglo XIX llega a su fin y casi toda Europa se encuentra sumida en una profunda crisis política. Las amenazas terroristas proliferan y asuelan el continente.En este contexto, Sofía Delacruz llega a Londres procedente de España para predicar...