An horrific discovery on a Whitechapel construction site suddenly brings the prospect of death and disaster to the whole of 1870 London. In a race against time, the Scotland Yard detective division must stop the city from descending into chaos. It will take every ounce of their ingenuity to track down the individuals behind what might prove to be the greatest threat to life and limb for centuries. Elsewhere, London's only female private detective, Miss Lucy Landseer is tasked with tracking down an abandoned child, who is set to inherit a huge fortune upon the death of her mother. Will she manage to find the lost heiress in time to stop the inheritance from going to her unscrupulous uncle Jasper Broxton? In this eleventh outing for the celebrated Victorian detectives of Scotland Yard, the reader is once again enticed into a world of shadowy alleyways, squalid courts and flickering gas-lit streets, where rich and poor, good and evil rub shoulders. Praise for The Victorian Detectives: "I am whisked into another world. Thank you, absolutely superb!" Amazon reviewer