Why a Booktrail?
1941: There’s a body found in Bloomsbury
The Bloomsbury Murder
Why a Booktrail?
1941: There’s a body found in Bloomsbury
What you need to know before your trail
When Detective Inspector John Jago is called to a terraced house in London’s Bloomsbury district, he finds the body of a woman who has been attacked and left to die – her crime, it seems, being kindness to strangers. Rosemary Webster had taken in victims of the devastating Blitz and refugees from wartorn Europe and given them refuge in her own home, but now she’s a victim too – of cold-blooded murder. Jago is on the trail of a killer, pursuing them across Bloomsbury’s leafy squares and into the distinguished environs of University College London, uncovering a tangle of damaged hearts and minds as he goes. There may have been envy, resentment, even outright hostility. But who would want to strike down an angel of mercy in her own home?
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Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury is an intellectual and literary hub for London, as home of world-known Bloomsbury Publishing, publishers of the Harry Potter series, and namesake of the Bloomsbury Group, a group of British intellectuals which included author Virginia Woolf, biographer Lytton Strachey, and economist John Maynard Keynes.
The district is known for its numerous garden squares, including Bloomsbury Square, Russell Square and Bedford Square.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Bloomsbury Murder
Destination/location: Bloomsbury, London Author/guide: Mike Hollow Departure Time: 1941
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