(P/B) WHO KILLED ZEBEDEE?

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London, circa 1880: a lovelorn policeman, a pocket knife and the unsolved crime of a young husband, murdered on his honeymoon. Narrated as the deathbed confession of a London policeman, Who Killed Zebedee? exposes the seamier side of Victorian Britain: a realm of cheap hotels, under-paid servants and desperate measures. With a policeman as his narrator, and a female cook as the detective's accomplice, Collins places the world of lower-middle class England at the centre of his fiction. The accompanying tale, John Jago's Ghost, set in America, portrays with similar empathy the hard-working lives of New England farmers. Both a historic record of life in fledgling America, and a courtroom drama with an exciting twist, John Jago's Ghost examines the rivalry between two men for the control of Morwick Farm and the love of a pretty girl. Collins' short stories are classic examples of the sensationalist genre, and yet still possess the power to chill. (From the publisher)