![]() ![]() But if you can get past the slow early chapters it becomes an interesting read, culminating in that staple of the Victorian crime novel, the chase through the pea soup fog. At times the period detail comes near to being laid on with a trowel, and some of the characters are taken from stock it comes as no surprise that Lizzie reads Darwin and wears her social conscience on her sleeve. This book is clearly intended as the first in a series featuring Lizzie and Ben as a detective partnership. She also renews acquaintance with Benjamin Ross, once a pit boy in her home village, now a rising young police inspector. Lizzie is soon drawn into the search for the killer, much against the wishes of her employer. Almost immediately she learns that her predecessor, who disappeared some weeks earlier, has been found murdered. Such a young woman is Elizabeth Martin, who arrives in London from Derbyshire in 1864 after the death of her doctor father. ![]() Read 174 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The first thrilling instalment in the Inspector Ben Ros. ![]() In Victorian England many a penniless young woman of ‘good’ family found that the only form of paid employment available was as a ‘companion’ to a better-off widow. A Rare Interest In Corpses: A gripping Victorian crime mystery by Ann Granger A Rare Interest In Corpses book. ![]()
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