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Tom-all-alone's

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Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Historical fiction
Publisher: Constable and Robinson
Imprint: Corsair
Publication Date: 1/04/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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The story of "Tom-All-Alone's" is inspired by Dickens' masterpiece "Bleak House", and re-imagines his world for a contemporary reader, with a modern understanding of the grimmer realities of Victorian society. Charles Maddox, dismissed from the police force, is working as a private detective and can only hope to follow in his uncle's formidable footsteps as an eminent thief-taker. On a dark and foggy afternoon, a policeman calls on Charles at his lodgings with information that may be related to a case he is working on. He goes to a ruined cemetery to find a shallow grave containing the remains of four babies has been discovered. After examining them he concludes they are not related to his investigation, which is to find a young girl abandoned in a workhouse 16 years before, when her mother died. But all is not as it first appears. Ages 16+.