The Port of London Murders (British Library Crime Classics Book 84)
- Authors
- Bell, Josephine
- Publisher
- British Library
- Tags
- mystery , crime , riverboat , crime writers’ association , golden age crime , detection club , london fiction , police procedural , autumn crime
- ISBN
- 9780712353618
- Date
- 1938-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.53 MB
- Lang
- en
Wapping. Tugs and barges on the river. A west-end shop that deals apparently in nothing but lingerie. Women who sell their souls for something in a little screw of paper. A doctor in the slums who has mysterious visitors ...
In a mean street of dockland a woman is dead, with every sign of suicide ...
A derelict barge casts part of a cargo ashore, boxes which have double ends: some of these box-ends are empty, others conceal pink chiffon nightdresses ...
The river police are concerned with the smuggling, Detective-Sergeant Chandler with an apparent suicide which he believes to be murder. River and shore police confer. Sergeant Chandler visits his suspects once more. He is never seen again ...