Poor Tom Is Cold

Save

A police constable named Oliver Wicken has apparently committed suicide, leaving his mother and his invalid sister to fend for themselves. The evidence, according to the coroner, is irrefutable. Wicken was shot in the temple with his own revolver and a farewell note has been found beside his body. But new and disturbing evidence is brought to light that leads Detective Murdoch to suspect that the suicide was not what it seemed.

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 late-Victorian Toronto vividly to life.

$23.00

September 18, 2012

Select a Retailer:

Born in England, MAUREEN JENNINGS emigrated to Canada as a teenager. The first Detective Murdoch mystery was published in 1997. Six more followed, all to enthusiastic reviews. In 2003, Shaftesbury Films adapted three of the novels into movies of the week, and four years later the Murdoch Mysteries TV series was created; it is now shown around the world, including in the UK, the United States (as The Artful Detective), and much of Europe, as well as on Canada's national broadcast network, CBC TV. The Detective Inspector Tom Tyler series, set in World War II-era England, got off to a spectacular start with 2011's Season of Darkness, followed by Beware This Boy in 2012. Maureen lives in Toronto with her…

Poor Tom Is Cold

$23.00

More by Maureen Jennings

Except the Dying

Let Darkness Bury the Dead

Dead Ground in Between

No Known Grave

Beware This Boy

The Complete Murdoch Mysteries Collection

A Journeyman to Grief

Vices of My Blood

Let Loose the Dogs

Night's Child

Season of Darkness

Poor Tom Is Cold

Under the Dragon's Tail

More in Murdoch Mysteries

Except the Dying

Let Darkness Bury the Dead

The Complete Murdoch Mysteries Collection

A Journeyman to Grief

Vices of My Blood

Let Loose the Dogs

Night's Child

Poor Tom Is Cold

Under the Dragon's Tail