Night's Child: A Detective Murdoch Mystery

By Maureen Jennings

Book Overview

After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher, the young and still idealistic Amy Slade, is shocked to discover in the girl s desk two stereoscopic photographs. One is of a dead baby in its cradle, and on the back Agnes has scrawled a terrible message. Worse, the other photograph is of Agnes in a pose captioned What Mr. Newly Wed Really Wants. When Agnes doesn t show up at school the next day, her teacher takes the two photographs to the police. Murdoch, furious at the sexual exploitation of such a young girl, resolves to find the photographer and to put him behind bars. Night s Child is the fifth novel in Maureen Jennings s highly praised historical mystery series. Three of Jennings s novels have been made into TV movies under the title Murder 19C: The Murdoch Mysteries . Bravo/CHUM is currently developing a series based on the character of Detective William Murdoch for broadcast in 2007."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771043740
• ISBN13: 9780771043741
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.4" x 0.9" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

I loved this book !

If you enjoy reading about victorian times - you will love this book- it is about how hard times were for poor people - It has a great mystery plot and wonderful people !