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The Hourglass Factory: A Novel by Lucy Ribchester (Hardback, 2016)

London, 1912. The suffragette movement is reaching a fever pitch, and Inspector Frederick Primrose is hunting a murderer on his beat. Across town, Fleet Street reporter Frances Frankie George is chasing an interview with trapeze artist Ebony Diamond. Frankie finds herself fascinated by the tightly-laced acrobat and follows her to a Bond Street corset shop that seems to be hiding secrets of its own. When Ebony Diamond mysteriously disappears in the middle of a performance, Frankie and Primrose are both drawn into the shadowy world of a secret society with ties to both London's criminal underworld and its glittering socialites. How did Ebony vanish, who was she afraid of, and what goes on behind the doors of the mysterious Hourglass Factory? From newsrooms to the drawing rooms of high society, the investigation leads Frankie and Primrose to a murderous villain with a plot more deadly than anyone could have imagined.

Place of Publication
New York
Author Biography
Lucy Ribchester was the winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer's Award 2013. She is the author of The Hourglass Factory and The Amber Shadows and her short stories have been published by, among others, Vintage Script, Ether, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Lucy lives in Edinburgh.
Date of Publication
12/04/2016
Country of Publication
United States

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