The Mangle Street Murders

Funny, fresh and sharply plotted Victorian crime starring a detective duo to rival Holmes and Watson. Gower Street, London, 1882: Sidney Grice, London's most famous personal detective, is expecting a visitor. He drains his fifth pot of morning tea, and glances outside, where a young, plain woman picks her way between the piles of horse-dung towards his front door. Sidney Grice shudders. For heaven's sake – she is wearing brown shoes. Set between the refined buildings of Victorian Bloomsbury and ...