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PUBLISHER: Exhibit A

ISBN: 9781909223271

PAGES: 416 pages

PUBLICATION DATE:
July 8, 2014

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Lawless & The Flowers Of Sin

A foundation for fallen women. A chess automaton. An impossible theft. Reluctant inspector of vice, Lawless must take a fruitless reckoning of London’s shadowy nether world. Hyposcrisy, double standards: just what we expect from stuffy Victorian society. But Lawless was not expecting the trail that his questions open up: from the erotic booksellers of Holywell Street down the darkening passageways of Haymarket bordellos to backstreet cast-offs of the high life. When reputations are at threat, those running the show can be merciless in defending them.

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