Black silk & sympathy
Challinor, Deborah2024
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Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die in quick succession, she's left heartbroken and destitute, and at seventeen emigrates to Sydney in 1864, determined to build a new, financially secure life for herself. After an apprenticeship as an undertaker's assistant with Crowe Funeral Services, Tatty marries owner Titus Crowe. Titus himself soon dies and Tatty inherits the business and becomes Sydney's only female undertaker. But then rival funeral director Elias Nuttall, intent on acquiring Crowe Funeral Services, publicly accuses Tatty of deliberately poisoning Titus. She must find a way to stop him before he ruins her, and embarks on exposing Nuttall's own gruesome secrets, a mission that takes her from the cemetery at midnight, to house-breaking, to Sydney's criminal court, to the lunatic asylum.
Main title:
Black silk & sympathy / Deborah Challinor.
Author:
Challinor, Deborah, author
Work:
Imprint:
Gadigal Country ; [Sydney, N.S.W.] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.
Collation:
375 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Tatty Crowe ; 1
ISBN:
9781460763667
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
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BRN:
162672