Winter of Despair - Cora Harrison

Wilkie Collins must prove his brother is innocent of murder in the second of the compelling new Gaslight mystery series. November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the lacerated fragments of canvas of a painting titled A Winter of Despair.On closer examination, Wilkie realizes he recognizes the victim, for he had been due to dine with him that very evening. The dead man... Zobrazit více