Poor Tom Is Cold - Hardcover

Jennings, Maureen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312268920 ISBN 13: 9780312268923

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2001

Synopsis

A woman's evil stepchildren plot to lock her away in a sanitarium for the insane in order to steal her husband's estate, in a mystery set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Toronto.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

In this third adventure featuring the lovable detective William Murdoch, he becomes involved with the apparent suicide of Constable Oliver Wicken ? a man who was the sole support of his mother and invalid sister. But further investigation by Detective Murdoch takes him far afield and he begins to suspect that the Eakin family, whose house adjoins the one where Wicken died, is more involved with the case than they admit. Whether describing a tooth extraction, the unquestioning prejudice toward the few Chinese immigrants in the city, or the well-intentioned, but bizarre, treatment of mentally ill women, Maureen Jennings once again brings the period vividly to life.

From the Back Cover:

“Jennings has a wonderful feel for the places and tasks that give life and context to a character.”
– New York Times Book Review

“Readers are given a vivid, heart-wrenching picture of the poverty of many in Victorian Toronto.”
– Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312268920
• ISBN 13: 9780312268923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278