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The Yard

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1889, London. Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror is finally over, but a new one is just beginning… In the late Victorian era, as many as 96 bodies a month are pulled from the Thames, the majority of them with their throats slit. The broken body of a Scotland Yard detective is found in a steamer trunk, his eyes and lips sewn shut. Inspector Walter Day's first assignment is to catch the killer…

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Book 1.0
Narration 3.0
Author Alex Grecian
Narrator Nigel Carrington
Duration 13 hours and 45 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781471211270
Format Audiobook
Publisher W. F. Howes Ltd
Genre Crime and mystery fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE
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1.0 (1 review)
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3.0 (1 review)

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