The Great Stink

Clare Clark

earliest edition we have, 2005 Thorndike Press, 2006

Thorndike Press large print mystery

It is 1855, and engineer William May has returned home to his beloved wife from the battlefields of the Crimea. He secures a job transforming London's sewer system and begins to lay his ghosts to rest. Above ground, his work is increasingly compromised by corruption, and cholera epidemics threaten the city. But it is only when the peace of the tunnels is shattered by murder that William loses his tenuous hold on sa...

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The Great Stink ebook · 2009 · Penguin Group UK · 9780141909622
The great stink edition · 2006 · Harcourt · 356 pages · 9780156030885
The great stink edition · 2006 · Thorndike Press
The great stink edition · 2005 · Viking · 358 pages
The Great Stink hardcover · 2005 · Harcourt · 362 pages · 9780151011612

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