A Swedish novelist joins a Scotland Yard detective to solve a
crime.Euthanasia Bondeson is that rara avis of Victorian times: a
plain-speaking, independent woman who travels the world with only
her beautiful young companion Agnes as chaperone. In 1851, upon
their arrival in London to see the Great Exhibition, Agnes gets
lost in the throng viewing the remarkable Crystal Palace. While
searching for her, Euthanasia meets Professor Devindra, a native of
India brought up as a proper English gentleman, and his friends,
famous artist Sir Edmund Chambers, his wife Lady Margaret and her
sister Ruby Holiday. After finding Agnes and returning with her to
their hotel, Euthanasia receives a visit from Owain Evans, a Welsh
DCI who is a great admirer of her novels. He gives the ladies a
tour of the London slums, where they meet several other intriguing
characters, including a clergyman who takes pornographic photos.
But a visit to the British Museum with the professor and the
Chambers family results in a more sinister disappearance of Agnes.
Although Euthanasia is initially oblivious to the possible dangers
threatening her companion, she and Evans team up to investigate
when a body is found. The remains are not those of Agnes, but when
several other young woman disappear, they search among her new
acquaintances for a white slaver.A slow-moving mystery packed with
Victorian flavor. (Kirkus Reviews)
Self-centred, tactless and irresistible, Euthanasia Bondeson makes
her debut on the crime novel scene. The setting is London in 1851,
the year of the Great Exhibition. Together with a Welsh police
inspector the successful Swedish authoress goes in search of her
beautiful companion, who has disappeared in the narrow streets of
London.
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