02567cam a2200373 i 4500 623884370 TxAuBib 20210729120000.0 210217s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021007045 9781432888091 hardcover 1432888099 hardcover (OCoLC)1238132237 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda DLC rda OCLCO rda DLC OCLCF IK2 OCLCO IUK TXKPL TxAuBib OCLCO OCLCF IK2 OCLCO IUK TXKPL TxAuBib rda O'Donnell, Paraic, author. The House on Vesper Sands / By Paraic O'Donnell. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021. 553 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world of Paraic O'Donnell's Victorian-inspired mystery, the story of a city cloaked in shadow, but burning with questions: why does the seamstress jump from the window? Why is a cryptic message stitched into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances? On the case is Inspector Cutter, a detective as sharp and committed to his work as he is wryly hilarious. Gideon Bliss, a Cambridge dropout in love with one of the missing girls, stumbles into a role as Cutter's sidekick. And clever young journalist Octavia Hillingdon sees the case as a chance to tell a story that matters--despite her employer's preference that she stick to a women's society column. As Inspector Cutter peels back the mystery layer by layer, he leads them all, at last, to the secrets that lie hidden at the house on Vesper Sands. By turns smart, surprising, and impossible to put down, The House on Vesper Sands offers a glimpse into the strange undertow of late nineteenth-century London and the secrets we all hold inside us"-- Provided by publisher. 20210729. Secrecy Fiction. Nobility Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. London (England) History 19th century Fiction. Large type book. Mystery fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. TXKPL