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The Inventor
- Author
- Emily Organ
- Narrator
- Gabrielle Baker
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 29 January 2019
- Run Time
- 8 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Plucky Fleet Street reporter Penny Green witnesses the inventor’s death and suspects the clue to his suicide lies in a mysterious letter he left behind. But can she persuade Inspector James Blakely of Scotland Yard that a crime has been committed?
Borthwick isn’t the only person who died that day and Penny soon encounters a shadowy world which the police can’t get close to. When the intimidation begins, Penny starts to fear for her own safety. James does what he can to protect her, but is it enough?
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Details
- Author
- Emily Organ
- Narrator
- Gabrielle Baker
- Duration
- 8 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 January 2019
- ISBN
- 9781541443945
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
London 1884. Electricity pioneer Simon Borthwick lights up Victorian London with a stunning illuminations display—then shoots himself in a hansom cab.Plucky Fleet Street reporter Penny Green witnesses the inventor’s death and suspects the clue to his suicide lies in a mysterious letter he left behind. But can she persuade Inspector James Blakely of Scotland Yard that a crime has been committed?Borthwick isn’t the only person who died that day and Penny soon encounters a shadowy world which the police can’t get close to. When the intimidation begins, Penny starts to fear for her own safety. James does what he can to protect her, but is it enough?
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