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In a hunt that takes Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain through the harrowing streets of Victorian London to the dangers of the seamen's floating hospital, The Blood, they will endeavor to solve a dark and terrible new mystery. Summoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves onboard the seamen's floating hospital, an old hulk known only as The Blood, where prejudice, ambition, and murder seethe beneath a veneer of medical respectability. On shore, a young woman, a known prostitute, is found drowned in a derelict boatyard. A man leaps to his death into the Thames, driven mad by poison and fear. The events are linked -- but how? Courting danger in the opium dens and brothels of the waterfront, certain that The Blood lies at the heart of the puzzle, Jem and Will embark on a quest to uncover the truth. In a hunt that takes them from the dissecting tables of a private anatomy school to the squalor of the dock-side mortuary, they find themselves involved in a dark and terrible mystery.
About the Author
E. S. Thomson was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire. She has a PhD in the history of medicine and tries to fit as much history of medicine into her novels as possible. Her work has been shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award, the Scottish Arts Council First Book Award, the William McIlvanney Award, and long listed for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger Award. Elaine divides her time between Edinburgh and Gateshead. She writes by night, works as a university lecturer by day, and brings up her two sons by herself. She is mostly really tired as a result.
