Foul Trade

Amid Londons docks and dark alleys, a coroners officer investigates a murder: A wonderful heroine . . . a side of the 1920s we don't usually see. Andrew Taylor, Diamond Dagger Awardwinning author of The Kings Evil The poverty, drunken fights between visiting sailors, drug trafficking, and criminal gangs haunting the shadows of the busiest docks in the world mean that the Coroner sees more than its fair share of sudden and unnatural deaths. But Coroners Officer May Keaps has never failed to provide a jury with sufficient evidence to arrive at a just verdict. May relishes the responsibility placed upon herbut there are many who believe its an unsuitable job for a woman. Even May begins to wonder if thats the case when the discovery of a young man's body, in a Limehouse alley, plunges her into an underworld of opium dens, gambling, turf wars, protection rackets and murderand she fears ending up on one of her own mortuary slabs