At Midnight In Venice (Charles Dickens and Superintendent Jones investigate 5)

Its a tricky case for Charles Dickens and Superintendent Jones! Perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes, Victorian crime mysteries, A Christmas Carol and David Copperfield Two cities, two skeletons, linked by a mysterious vision London, 1850 An Italian music master and an English governess disappear from the house of Sir Neptune Fane, a prominent Member of Parliament. A female skeleton is found in a disused water tank behind a house which has been empty for five years. Her neck had been broken and found with a jewelled chain around it. Charles Dickens is reminded of his time in Venice a few years earlier, when he thought he saw a monk with his hands on a girls neck, the glimpse of jewels in fleeting torchlight, a cry of fear. And later he read that a girl was found drowned at the spot where he had his vision. Are the two corpses connected? And what is the link to Sir Neptune Fane? Charles Dickens and Superintendent Sam Jones must find the link between the backstreets of London and the mysterious canals of Venice At Midnight In Venice is the fifth urban mystery in J. C. Briggs literary historical series, the Charles Dickens investigations, a traditional British detective series set in Victorian London. The Charles Dickens Investigations Series: BOOK ONE: The Murder of Patience Brooke BOOK TWO: Death at Hungerford Stairs BOOK THREE: Murder by Ghostlight BOOK FOUR: The Quickening and the Dead BOOK FIVE: At Midnight In Venice