Murder at Old St. Thomas's by Lisa M. Lane

In 1862 London, the body of a famous surgeon is found, sitting upright, in an old operating theatre. His dead eyes stare at the table at the center of the room, where patients had screamed and cried as medical students looked on.

The bookish Inspector Slaughter must discover the killer with the help of his American sergeant Mark Honeycutt and clues from Nightingale nurses, surgeon's dressers, devious apothecaries, and even stage actors.

Victorian Southwark becomes the theatre for revealing secrets of the past in a world where anaesthesia is new, working-class audiences enjoy Shakespeare, and women reformers solve society's problems.

Paperback
Publisher: Grousable Books
Number of pages: 240
ISBN: 9798985302721

Note: Mildred draws visitors' attention to the fact that this book is a work of fiction and its description of 'devious apothecaries'  does not apply to the current Old Op Apothecary or its inhabitants.