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100 1  Rowland, Laura Joh,|eauthor. 
245 10 Portrait of peril :|ba Victorian mystery /|cLaura Joh 
       Rowland. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bCrooked Lane,|c2021. 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    293 pages ;|c25 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Victorian mysteries 
520    "London, October 1890. Crime scene photographer Sarah Bain
       is overjoyed to marry her beloved Detective Sergeant 
       Barrett--but the wedding takes a sinister turn when the 
       body of a stabbing victim is discovered in the crypt of 
       the church. Not every newlywed couple begins their 
       marriage with a murder investigation, but Sarah and 
       Barrett, along with their friends Lord Hugh Staunton and 
       Mick O'Reilly, take the case. The dead man is Charles 
       Firth, whose profession is "spirit photography"-- 
       photographing the ghosts of the deceased. When Sarah 
       develops the photographs he took in the church, she 
       discovers one with a pale, blurred figure attacking the 
       victim. The city's spiritualist community believes the 
       church is haunted and the figure is a ghost. But Sarah is 
       a skeptic, and she and her friends soon learn that the 
       victim had plenty of enemies in the human world--including
       a scientist who studies supernatural phenomena, his 
       psychic daughter, and an heiress on a campaign to debunk 
       spiritualism and expose fraudulent mediums. In the tunnels
       beneath a demolished jail, a ghost-hunting expedition ends
       with a new murder, and new suspects. While Sarah searches 
       for the truth about both crimes, she travels a dark, 
       twisted path into her own family's sordid history. Her 
       long lost father is the prime suspect in a cold-case 
       murder, and her reunion with him proves that even the most
       determined skeptic can be haunted by ghosts from the 
       past."--Amazon. 
650  0 Women photographers|zEngland|zLondon|vFiction. 
650  0 Legal photography|vFiction. 
650  0 Murder|xInvestigation|vFiction. 
651  0 Great Britain|xHistory|yVictoria, 1837-1901|vFiction. 
655  7 Detective and mystery fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Mystery fiction.|2gsafd 
800 1  Rowland, Laura Joh.|tVictorian mysteries ;|v05.