The Specimen [electronic resource]
2013
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The year is 1859. Edward Scales is a businessman, a butterfly collector, a respectable man. He is the man Gwen Carrick fell in love with one windswept day on a beach in Cornwall. Seven years later he is dead and Gwen is on trial for his murder.Set in a Victorian world battling between the forces of spiritualism and Darwinism, polite society and the call of clandestine love, Gwen and Edward's tale is a gripping melodrama, a romance and a murder mystery that will compel readers to its final thrilling page.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Canongate Books, 2013
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1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9780857867155
Language:
English
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BRN:
2635791