Actually, I'm A Corpse Author Surname:Deary Tracing this fiction of speculation

Tracing this fiction of speculation and fear from the motion photography of the 1890s to 1950s television

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she asks him to take charge of a very special case

Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voices: A

Adlam's complex narrative brings to life the lost legacies of early crime fiction and the first women journalists and detectives

Actually, I'm A Corpse Author Surname:Deary Tracing this fiction of speculation1973. Hours after a mysterious phone call is made to the police, a train pulls into Sunderland station with a dead body on board. Cause of death: strangulation. Victim: unknown. Witnesses: none. Undeterred by this baffling set of circumstances, newly promoted Police Sergeant Aline James vows to crack the case and prove her critics wrong. But when her famously ruthless investigation tactics yield no results, she is forced to seek help from two unlikely