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| Author/Contributor(s): | Jennings, Maureen |
| Publisher: | McClelland & Stewart |
| Date: | 9/3/2013 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In his forties, theReverend Charles Howard still cut an impressive figure. A married Presbyterian ministerin Toronto’s east end, Howard was popular with the congregation that elected him,especially with the ladies, and most particularly with Miss Sarah Dignam. Respectedin the community, Howard, as Visitor for the House of Industry, sat in judgment onthe poor, assessing their applications for the workhouse.
But now Howard is dead,stabbed and brutally beaten by someone he invited into his office. His watch andboots are missing. Has some poor beggar he turned down taken his vengeance?
Murdoch’ s investigation takes him into the arcane Victorian world of queer plungers—menwho fake injury all the better to beg—and the destitute who had nowhere left toturn when they knocked on the Reverend Howard’s door.
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