Author: HARDWICK, MICHAEL
Title: Nightbone
Description: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297798065). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has usual age darkening to page edges with dustjacket which is not price clipped. A vivid tale of vengeance and the sex trade in Victorian London with the hero being Nightbone, a sergeant in the Metropolitan Police, a loner, hard but just, both respected and feared. He falls from favour then his downfall is brought about by 'Bailey' Watts, a cunning criminal. Stripped of uniform and authority, he turns for refuge to 'Old Mazurka', a shopkeeper who had lost his daughter to white slavers, and finds himself involved in a quest for revenge, helped by a prostitute, Jenny Jacks, in a race to save yet another innocent girl from the white slave trade. C3B. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Murder Mystery, Crime Fiction, Victorian London, White Slave Trade, Sergeant Nightbone 0297798065


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