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THE DARWIN AFFAIR
By: Tim Mason
Get ready for one of the most inventive and entertaining novels of 2019?an edge-of-your-seat Victorian-era thriller, where the controversial publication On the Origin of Species sets off a string of unspeakable crimes.
Algonquin Books
June 2019
On Sale: June 11, 2019
382 pages
ISBN: 1616206349
EAN: 9781616206345
Kindle: B07GNX99VJ
Hardcover / e-Book
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London, June 1860: When an assassination attempt is made on Queen Victoria, and a petty thief is gruesomely murdered moments laterβand only a block awayβChief Detective Inspector Charles Field quickly surmises that these crimes are connected to an even more sinister plot. Was Victoria really the assassinβs target? Are those closest to the Crown hiding something? And who is the shadowy figure witnesses describe as having lifeless, coal-black eyes? Soon, Fieldβs investigation exposes a shocking conspiracy in which the publication of Charles Darwinβs controversial On the Origin of Species sets off a string of murders, arson, kidnapping, and the pursuit of a madman named the Chorister. As the investigation takes Field from the dangerous alleyways of London to the hallowed halls of Oxford, the list of possible conspirators grows, and the body count escalates. And as he edges closer to the Chorister, he uncovers dark secrets that were meant to remain forever hidden. Tim Mason has created a rousing page-turner that both Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would relish and envy.
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