The Blue and the Grey: A Victorian Mystery

Introducing 19th-century private investigators Matthew Grand and James Batchelor in the first of a brand-new historical mystery series.

April, 1865. Having been an eye witness to the assassination of President Lincoln, Matthew Grand, a former captain of the 3rd Cavalry of the Potomac, has come to London on an undercover assignment to hunt down the last of the assassin's co-conspirators. Ambitious young journalist Jim Batchelor has been charged with writing a feature article on the visiting American, with the aim of getting the inside story on the assassination.

Both men are distracted from their missions by the discovery of a body behind the Haymarket Theatre in London's Soho district. It's the latest in a series of grisly garrottings by a killer known as the Haymarket Strangler.

As Grand and Batchelor team up to pursue their investigations through the dark underbelly of Victorian London, it becomes clear that there may be a disturbing connection between the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Haymarket Strangler.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Creme de La Crime
Published: 04/01/2015
ISBN: 9781780290706
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.60w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/16/2015
Booklist 02/15/2015 pg. 34