The spirit guide

1879, Victorian London. Tea room sting operations, seedy music hall secrets, elaborate disguises, and slow-burn romance. Detective duo Minnie Ward and Albert Easterbrook return for another exciting case to uncover the dark secrets at the heart of Victorian London's spiritualist scene. This time, an...

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Main Author: Walsh, Bridget, 1964- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: London : Pushkin Press, 2026.
Series:Walsh, Bridget, 1964-. Variety Palace mystery.
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Summary:1879, Victorian London. Tea room sting operations, seedy music hall secrets, elaborate disguises, and slow-burn romance. Detective duo Minnie Ward and Albert Easterbrook return for another exciting case to uncover the dark secrets at the heart of Victorian London's spiritualist scene. This time, an investigation into two mysterious deaths leads this famed detective duo to the doors of the Spirit Sisterhood, a female-only spiritualist group that facilitates communion with the souls of the dead. And recently several of its visitors have been found dead themselves. Minnie isn't buying it: there is more to the Sisterhood than there first seems. The more Minnie looks, the more covert operations come to light. She goes undercover at the organization's secretive countryside home, where she quickly finds herself drawn into the dark but strangely alluring world of spirits and ghosts.
Physical Description:303 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:9781805335832
1805335839
Author Notes:Bridget Walsh was born in London to Irish immigrant parents. She studied English literature at university and later acquired both a PhD in Victorian domestic murder and an obsessive interest in the weirder elements of nineteenth-century life. Bridget lives in Norwich with her husband, Micky, and her two dogs. Her debut and the first book in the Variety Palace Mysteries The Tumbling Girl won the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown and was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger. The Innocents was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year. Both are available from Pushkin Vertigo.