The devil's making

By Seán Haldane

Subjects: Fiction, Murder, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Police, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Social life and customs, Investigation

Description: "Victoria, 1869. The ramshackle capital of British Columbia, the last colony in North America, where a few thousand settlers aspire to the values of the Victorian age while coexisting beside the native Indians that vastly outnumber them. That peace is challenged when a mutilated body is discovered: Dr. McCrory, an American alienist whose methods include phrenology, Mesmerism, and sexual-mystical magnetation. Chad Hobbes, recently arrived from England, is the policeman who must solve the crime"--