Title : Slaves of the Past - Anne Perry - book
Summary :
Daniel Alberton, a wealthy English arms dealer, is found murdered in the courtyard of his Tooley Street warehouse. While there, detective William Monk discovers the watch of Lyman Breeland, an American Union officer to whom Alberton refused to sell rifles. A clear culprit? Especially since Breeland seems to have returned home, accompanied by Alberton's daughter Merrit, a young idealist committed to the abolitionist cause. With the Civil War about to engulf the United States, Monk, accompanied by his wife Hester and Philo Trace, Breeland's sworn enemy, must pursue him across the Atlantic and across an America bloodied by its first battles.
"Anne Perry is adept at castigating the violence that constantly surfaces behind the prudish decorum that Victorian high society adorns itself with."
French Book Critical Bulletin
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EAN: 9782264035165
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