Foul trade [text(large print)]
Duncan, B. K.2015
Large Print
It is March 1920 and May Keaps, the Poplar Coroner's Officer, has never failed to provide a jury with sufficient evidence to arrive at a just verdict. And the poverty, drunken fights between visiting sailors, drug trafficking, and criminal gangs haunting the shadows of the busiest docks in the world mean that the courtroom sees more than its fair share of sudden and unnatural deaths. May relishes the responsibility placed upon her but there are many who believe it's an unsuitable job for a woman and the position should be given to one of the soldiers back from the First World War. Even May begins to wonder if that shouldn't be the case when the discovery of a young man's body in a Limehouse alley plunges her into an underworld of opium dens, illegal gambling, drug dealers' turf wars, the protection rackets of the notorious Bow Kum Tong, and murder.
Main title:
Foul trade [text(large print)] / B.K. Duncan.
Author:
Duncan, B. K., author
Work:
Imprint:
Long Preston : Magna, 2015.Long Preston : Magna, 2015.
Collation:
512 pages (large print)
ISBN:
9780750540827 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1746439