6/30/2023 0 Comments The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Little does she know that she is only being drawn deeper into danger. It’s a bleak time to be poor in London and, when Hester suffers an accident near Smithfield Market, and is swept off for recuperation in the house of a wealthy surgeon, she thinks that she has escaped the dark belly of the underworld once and for all. As the smogs thicken in the narrow streets, orphaned Hester White studies the handbills pasted up on the dank walls, begging for news of lost loved ones. Men, women and children vanish on their way home from work or after a pint in the pub. In the dark streets of early 19th-century Holborn, people are disappearing. ![]()
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