Tom-All-Alone`s

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The story of ” Tom-All-Alone`s” takes place in the `space between` two masterpieces of mid-Victorian fiction: ” Bleak House” & ” The Woman in White”
- overlapping with them, & re-imagining them for a contemporary reader, with a modern understanding of the grimmer realities of Victorian society. Charles Maddox, dismissed from the police force, is working as a private detective & can only hope to follow in his uncle`s formidable footsteps as an eminent thief-taker. On a cold & bright Autumn morning, a policeman calls on Charles at his lodgings with information that may be related to a case he is working on. He goes to a ruined cemetery to find a shallow grave containing the remains of four babies has been discovered. After examining them he concludes they are not related to his investigation, which is to find a young girl abandoned in a workhouse 16 years before, when her mother died. But all is not as it first appears. As he`s drawn into another case at the behest of the eminent but feared lawyer, Edward Tulkinghorn, London`s sinister underbelly begins to emerge. From the first gruesome murder, Charles has a race against time to establish the root of all evil.” Tom`s-All-Alone” is ` Dickens but darker`
- without the comedy, without the caricature, & a style all its own. The novel explores a dark underside of Victorian life that Dickens & Collins hinted at
- a world in which young women are sexually abused, unwanted babies summarily disposed of, & those that discover the grim secrets of great men brutally eliminated.