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  • The Frankenstein Monster

  • The Charles Maddox Mysteries, Book 3
  • By: Lynn Shepherd
  • Narrated by: Greta Scacchi
  • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins

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The Frankenstein Monster

By: Lynn Shepherd
Narrated by: Greta Scacchi
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Summary

In the dying days of 1850, the young detective Charles Maddox takes on a new case. His client? The only surviving son of the long-dead poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife Mary, author of Frankenstein.

Charles soon finds himself being drawn into the bitter battle being waged over the poet's literary legacy. When a chance discovery raises doubts about the death of Shelley's first wife, Harriet, he starts to question whether she did kill herself—or whether what really happened was far more sinister…

“Shepherd shines again in this superb Victorian thriller.”—Publishers Weekly starred review

“So evocative of mid-Victorian England… An absolute must.”—Daily Mail

“[Shepherd] takes the familiar story of the Shelley family and fills in the holes in the historical record by turning it into a clever, imaginative and literate mystery.”—Kirkus Reviews starred review

©2014 Lynn Shepherd (P)2014 W. F. Howes Ltd

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