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Detective Murdoch
McClelland & Stewart
May 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
352 pages
ISBN: 0771043384
EAN: 9780771043383
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Thriller Crime | Mystery Police Procedural
The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto
thirty-eight years later — in murder.
In 1858, a
young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and
taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery.
Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on
a murder case that will take all of his resourcefulness to
solve. The owner of one of Toronto’s livery stables has
been found dead. He has been horsewhipped and left hanging
from his wrists in his tack room, and his wife claims that
a considerable sum of money has been stolen. Then a second
man is also murdered, his body strangely tied as if he
were a rebellious slave. Murdoch has to find out whether
Toronto’s small “coloured” community has a vicious
murderer in its midst — an investigation that puts his own
life in danger.
Maureen Jennings’s trademark in
her popular and acclaimed Detective Murdoch series is to
reveal a long-forgotten facet about life in the city that
dispels any notion that it really ever was “Toronto the
Good.” As well, in A Journeyman to Grief, an
exceptionally well plotted and engrossing story, she shows
just how a great harm committed in the past can erupt
fatally in the present.
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