Bibliograph

Watchers of the dead, Simon Beaufort

Type

Label

Watchers of the dead, Simon Beaufort

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Watchers of the dead

Oclc number

1108711852

Responsibility statement

Simon Beaufort

Series statement

The Alec Lonsdale series

Summary

"All Londoners will see what the Watchers are capable of on Christmas Eve ... "December 1882. Attending the opening of the new Natural History Museum, Pall Mall Gazette reporter Alec Lonsdale and his colleague Hulda Friederichs are shocked to discover a body in the basement, hacked to death. Suspicion immediately falls on a trio of cannibals, brought over from the Congo as museum exhibits, who have disappeared without trace. Alec however has his doubts - especially when he discovers that three other influential London men have been similarly murdered. When he and Hulda discover a letter in the victim's home warning of a catastrophic event planned for Christmas Eve, the pair find themselves in a race against time to discover who exactly the Watchers are and what it is they want ..

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