Bernard Kingsley, the Yard's first forensic pathologist. When Walter Day, the squad's new hire, is assigned to the case, he finds a strange ally in Dr. But no one can anticipate the brutal murder of one of their own.Ī Scotland Yard Inspector has been found stuffed in a black steamer trunk at Euston Square Station, his eyes and mouth sewn shut. Formed after the Metropolitan Police's spectacular failure in capturing Jack the Ripper, they suffer the brunt of public contempt. The twelve detectives of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad are expected to solve the thousands of crimes committed in the city each month. Victorian London-a violent cesspool of squalid sin. "If Charles Dickens isn't somewhere clapping his hands for this one, Wilkie Collins surely is."- The New York Times Book Review Description As Jack the Ripper's reign of terror in London comes to an end, a new era of depravity sets the stage for the first gripping mystery featuring the detectives of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad.
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