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These stories are a brilliant evocation of a narrow, close-knit community that of the streets of London's East End in the 1890s. Having lived and worked there, he knew that his East Enders were not a race apart, but ordinary men and women, scraping by perhaps, but neither criminals nor paupers. He chronicled their adventures and misadventures, their wooing and their funerals, with sympathy, humor and a sense of both the tragedies and comedies to be...
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Comprised of six short works of fiction, The Dorrington Deed-Box follows a London-based private detective named Horace Dorrington. Motivated by profit, Dorrington will do whatever it takes to catch criminals-even if that means killing them. This immoral and dishonest behavior extends to his clients as well, as Dorrington will manipulate anyone he can into hiring him. Outwardly polite, even-tempered and charming, Dorrington is socially pleasant but...
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