The Devil's Making Haldane Sen
The Devil's Making Haldane Sen The first of two 19th century detective mysteries set in lands which were to become parts of Canada.Victoria, 1869. This was Dr McCrory, an American 'alienist' or mad-doctor who was either an innovator in the treatment of mental illne… Celý popis ↓
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The first of two 19th century detective mysteries set in lands which were to become parts of Canada.Victoria, 1869. This was Dr McCrory, an American 'alienist' or mad-doctor who was either an innovator in the treatment of mental illness, drawn to practice in the freedom of the colony, or a charlatan whose methods include the most dubious of pseudo-sciences: phrenology, Mesmerism, and sexual-mystical 'magnetation'. The ramshackle capital of British Columbia, one of the last colonies in North America, where among European, American and Chinese (known as 'Celestial') settlers vastly outnumbered by native Indians, a few thousand British try to establish the values, noble and ignoble, of what is beginning to be known as the Victorian age.The body of a man, horribly mutilated, is discovered in the forest.
Chad Hobbes, fresh from England, is the detective who must solve the
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