Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand
20 June 2013Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marked out for a gentleman in a city brothel, they were legally trafficked to Brussels, Paris and beyond.
All the while, the Establishment turned a blind eye. That is, until one policeman wrote an incendiary report.
Disgraced for...
Details
20 June 2013384 pages
9780330544658Imprint: Picador
Reviews
‘A riveting book, deeply shocking one moment, rich in absurdity the next’ Daily Mail
‘Captures all the colour of a Victorian melodrama’ Independent
‘Plunges us deep into a late-Victorian, fog-bound London’ Mail on Sunday
‘Vividly depicts a system of double standards in which much of the Establishment was implicated’ Sunday Times
