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    Birdcage Walk: A Novel

    By Kate Riordan

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    A London Murder Mystery Based on a True Historical Crime

    George Woolfe is a young working class East London printmaker in the early 1900’s. Frustrated by the constraints of his class and station, he sees an opportunity to escape when he by chance meets Charles Booth, author of one of the most comprehensive social surveys of London ever undertaken. But this auspicious encounter has tragic consequences for George who, within six months, is charged with the murder of a young woman. But did he do it?

    Set at the dawning of a new century, when the rigid class and gender boundaries of the Victorian age were soon to shift and realign, BIRDCAGE WALK is a historical novel that vividly brings to life a real-life Edwardian murder and the possible miscarriage of justice that followed it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiversion Books
    Release dateApr 11, 2012
    ISBN9781938120671
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    • 3/5
      I didn't finish this, not because it was bad, but simply that it didn't suit my mood. It has a mildly annoying habit of many modern crime novels of prefiguring the end. So it opens with the corpse being discovered, then flashed back a few months to introduce the various characters. You then spend the first half of the book wondering which of the characters is going to end up being the corpse. Periodically there are letters that are written later by George to Lottie, and he is clearly in prison. You're left putting two and two together (although I'm fairly certain that it's not quite as simple as that). I couldn't tell you how it turns out, but that is my mood and needing something positive and cheery, rather than finding out how a perfectly nice lad ends up in a hellhole of a Victorian prison. The characters are varied, although I'm not entirely convinced by the relationship between George and the Drews. Lottie was completely annoying, being frivolous and entirely unthinking, but somehow does turn out to be real. It's worth a go if victorian crime drama is your thing.