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Night's child : a Detective Murdoch mystery  Cover Image Book Book

Night's child : a Detective Murdoch mystery

Jennings, Maureen. (Author).

Summary: "After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher, the young and still idealistic Amy Slade, is shocked to discover in the girl<U+2019>s desk two stereoscopic photographs. One is of a dead baby in its cradle, and on the back Agnes has scrawled a terrible message. Worse, the other photograph is of Agnes in a pose captioned “What Mr. Newly Wed Really Wants.” When Agnes doesn<U+2019>t show up at school the next day, her teacher takes the two photographs to the police. Murdoch, furious at the sexual exploitation of such a young girl, resolves to find the photographer <U+2013> and to put him behind bars."--McClelland & Stewart

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  • ISBN: 9780771095528 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: print
    364 p. ; 18 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : M&S, 2007, c2005.
Subject: Police zOntario -- Fiction
Child pornography -- Fiction
Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction
Ontario -- Fiction
Genre: Historical mystery fiction.
Canadian fiction.

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Summary: "After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher, the young and still idealistic Amy Slade, is shocked to discover in the girl<U+2019>s desk two stereoscopic photographs. One is of a dead baby in its cradle, and on the back Agnes has scrawled a terrible message. Worse, the other photograph is of Agnes in a pose captioned “What Mr. Newly Wed Really Wants.” When Agnes doesn<U+2019>t show up at school the next day, her teacher takes the two photographs to the police. Murdoch, furious at the sexual exploitation of such a young girl, resolves to find the photographer <U+2013> and to put him behind bars."--McClelland & Stewart

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