Beloved Poison by
E.S. Thomson – 390 p.
Spend some time in Victorian London. Jem works in the family
apothecary (pharmacy to you and me) for St. Saviour’s Hospital. But the
hospital is to be torn down and relocated for the new railway. As the hospital
tends to the poorest residents, and surgical technique in the mid-19th
century leads to more deaths than cures, untold numbers of human remains must
be exhumed and also relocated. Jem befriends Will, the young architect charged
with the cemetery removal. Together, they attempt to unravel an unsavory mystery
involving six tiny coffins, each containing a crude doll wrapped in
blood-encrusted rags.
A good, compelling read if you can stand the filth, the blood,
the bodies, and the stench of this singular era.
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