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Photo by Christy Grecian<br />
Excerpt from The YarD<br />
Nobody noticed when Inspector Christian Little of Scotland Yard disappeared, and<br />
nobody was looking for him when he was found.<br />
A black steamer trunk appeared at Euston Square Station sometime during the<br />
night and remained unnoticed until early afternoon of the following day. The porter<br />
discovered it after the one o’clock train had departed, and he opened the trunk when it<br />
proved too heavy for him to lift.<br />
He immediately sent a boy to find the police.<br />
v<br />
ictorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland<br />
Yard has only twelve detectives—known as “The Murder<br />
Squad”—to investigate thousands of murders every<br />
month. Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular<br />
failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers<br />
rampant public contempt. They have failed their citizens. But<br />
no one can anticipate the brutal murder of one of their own<br />
. . . one of the twelve . . .<br />
When Walter Day, the squad’s newest hire, is assigned the<br />
case of the murdered detective, he finds a strange ally in the<br />
Yard’s first forensic pathologist, Dr. Bernard Kingsley. Together<br />
they track the killer, who clearly is not finished with The Murder<br />
Squad . . . but why?<br />
Filled with fascinating period detail, and real historical figures,<br />
this spectacular debut in a new series showcases the depravity<br />
of late Victorian London, the advent of criminology, and<br />
introduces a stunning new cast of characters sure to appeal to<br />
fans of The Sherlockian and The Alienist.<br />
alex GreCIaN is<br />
the author of the long-running and<br />
critically acclaimed graphic novel<br />
series Proof. He lives in the Midwest<br />
with his wife and son. The Yard is his<br />
first novel.<br />
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