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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Harpercollins
Publication date
October 1, 1999
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780061097409
ISBN-10
0061097403
Dimensions
1 by 3.25 by 6.50 in.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$5.99
§As reported by publisher
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Murdoch Mysteries - Let Darkness Bury The Dead | Poor Tom Is Cold | Except the Dying | A Journeyman to Grief | Vices of My Blood | Night's Child | Let Loose the Dogs
Murdoch Mysteries - Let Darkness Bury The Dead | Poor Tom Is Cold | Except the Dying | A Journeyman to Grief | Vices of My Blood | Night's Child | Let Loose the Dogs
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Detective William Murdoch, hero of Except the Dying, takes on the rigid hierarchy of turn-of-the-century Toronto as he investigates a brutal murder tied to a mysterious birth many years earlier. Reprint. PW. NYT.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Where Secrets Dwell Women rich and poor came to her, desperate and in dire need of discretion. And though Dolly Merishaw tended to their unfortunate circumstances in secret, her contempt and greed bred nothing but fear and loathing in the hearts of her clients. So it's no shock to detective William Murdoch when this malicious woman is murdered. What is a surprise, though, is the young boy found dead in Dolly's squalid kitchen a week after her demise. Now, Murdoch isn't sure if he's hunting one murderer or two. The investigation takes Murdoch into Victorian Toronto's disparate social circles--from the dingy rooms of dancehall girls and the chaste parlors of temperance-touting citizens to the fine drawing rooms of the city's prestigious elite. The more he learns about Dolly and her clientele, the longer his lists of suspects and motives grows. Clues lead him to several unlikely suspects--all of whom have secrets from their pasts linking them to Dolly and what she malevolently called her "record of
Editions
Hardcover
from Thomas Dunne Books (October 1, 1998)
9780312193485 | details & prices | 243 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $21.95
About: Detective William Murdoch takes on the rigid hierarchy of turn-of-the-century Toronto as he investigates a brutal murder tied to a mysterious birth many years earlier
About: Detective William Murdoch takes on the rigid hierarchy of turn-of-the-century Toronto as he investigates a brutal murder tied to a mysterious birth many years earlier
Paperback
from McClelland & Stewart Ltd (September 18, 2012)
9780771095979 | details & prices | 295 pages | 5.00 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $15.99
About: Desperate women, rich and poor, come to her in need of help - and discretion.
About: Desperate women, rich and poor, come to her in need of help - and discretion.
from McClelland & Stewart Ltd (May 4, 2010)
9780771043352 | details & prices | 295 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.66 lbs | List price $16.95
The price comparison is for this edition
from Harpercollins (October 1, 1999)
9780061097409 | details & prices | 3.25 × 6.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.02 lbs | List price $5.99
About: Detective William Murdoch, hero of Except the Dying, takes on the rigid hierarchy of turn-of-the-century Toronto as he investigates a brutal murder tied to a mysterious birth many years earlier.
About: Detective William Murdoch, hero of Except the Dying, takes on the rigid hierarchy of turn-of-the-century Toronto as he investigates a brutal murder tied to a mysterious birth many years earlier.
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