Bonnie Macbird

Art in the Blood


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rel="nofollow" href="#u68af1c37-a56c-5a4e-8dcf-e7454850e277">Chapter 2: En Route

       Part Two: The City of Light

       Chapter 3: We Meet Our Client

       Chapter 4: Le Louvre

       Chapter 5: Les Oeufs

       Chapter 6: Le Chat Noir

       Part Three: The Lines Are Drawn

       Chapter 7: Attack!

      

       Chapter 8: A Slippery Slope

      

       Chapter 9: L’Artiste en Danger

      

       Chapter 10: Mlle la Victoire’s Story

      

       Part Four: Behind the Scenes

      

       Chapter 11: Baker Street Irregularities

      

       Chapter 12: Suspension Bridge

      

       Chapter 13: Mycroft

      

       Chapter 14: Armed With Lies

      

       Part Five: Belly of the Whale

      

       Chapter 15: Arrival

      

       Chapter 16: Repairs Needed

      

       Chapter 17: In the Bosom of the Family

      

       Chapter 18: First Look

      

       Part Six: Darkness Descends

      

       Chapter 19: Murder!

      

       Chapter 20: The Chambermaid

      

       Chapter 21: On the Ledge

      

       Chapter 22: A Terrible Mistake

      

       Part Seven: Tangled Threads

      

       Chapter 23: Terror Looms

      

       Chapter 24: Watson Investigates

      

       Chapter 25: Vidocq’s Story

      

       Part Eight: The Wash of Black

      

       Chapter 26: Man Down

      

       Chapter 27: Blood Brothers

      

       Chapter 28: The Winged Victory

      

       Part Nine: 221b

      

       Chapter 29: London Bound

      

       Chapter 30: Renewal

      

       Acknowledgements

      

       Unquiet Spirits Preview

      

       Chapter 1: Stillness

      

       About the Author

      

       About the Publisher

       Preface

      During the Olympic summer of 2012, while researching some Victorian medical information at the Wellcome Library, I chanced upon a discovery so astounding that it completely altered my course. After requesting several old volumes, I was brought a small, dusty selection, some so fragile that they were held together by delicate linen ribbons.

      Untying the largest, a treatise on the usage of cocaine, I discovered a thick sheaf of folded and yellowed papers had been tied to the back.

      I opened the pages carefully and spread them before me. The handwriting was strangely familiar. Was I seeing clearly? I turned back the cover of the book; on