L.M. Jackson
The Mesmerist's Apprentice
Paperback
(Arrow May 4, 2009)
When the enigmatic Sarah Tanner re-opens her Dining and Coffee Rooms soon after a disastrous fire, the gossips of Leather Lane grudgingly admit she has the luck of the devil. Yet when a local butcher is falsely accused of a heinous offence selling horsemeat it seems her luck has run out. Drawn into an evermore dangerous series of confrontations with a gang of youths who seem determined to put an innocent man out of business, Sarah Tanners own livelihood looks set for ruin into the bargain.But what links the persecution of a humble butcher with a certain Dr. Stead a leading practitioner of the strange art of mesmerism and a desperate plea from Sarahs former lover, the aristocrat Arthur De Salle? As Sarah Tanner investigates, she increasingly fears that the mesmerist, patronized by the highest society, is a charlatan and his latest patient, the unwitting victim of a grotesque fraud.To preserve a familys honour, Sar
- Series
- Naxos Calssical (Book 2)
- ISBN
- 0099498421 / 9780099498421
- Pages
- 356
- Weight
- 8.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 0.8
in.