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Greenwich, 1897. Una de las mujeres del servicio de la mansion de Dudley Kynaston, un ministro con acceso a algunos de los secretos mas peligrosos del gobierno, aparece brutalmente asesinada y mutilada. Se descubre asi una trama de chantajes enmarcados en la politica internacional y la carrera armamentistica europea del momento. / As commander of the powerful Special Branch, Thomas Pitt has the job of keeping Britain safe from spies and traitors. So theres no obvious reason why he is suddenly ordered to investigate two minor incidents: the blood, hair, and shards of glass discovered outside the home of naval weapons expert Dudley Kynaston, and the simultaneous disappearance of the Kynaston's maid.
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Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Dark Assassin and The Shifting Tide, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including The Cater Street Hangman, Calandar Square, Buckingham Palace Gardens and Long Spoon Lane. She is also the author of the World War I novels No Graves As Yet, Shoulder the Sky, Angels in the Gloom, At Some Disputed Barricade, and We Shall Not Sleep, as well as six holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Grace. Anne Perry lives in Scotland.
