Not a Pukka Gentleman

by Malcolm Archibald Book 5 in the Detective Watters Mysteries series.

First published 2022

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Dundee in the nineteenth century. Sergeant George Watters is stretched across three investigations at once: a poisoning, the kidnapping of boys from poor families and a peculiar series of attacks involving clocks and watches. The arrival of a circus and a raid on an illegal gambling den add new suspects and new opportunities for unrelated crimes to overlap.

With Dr Beaton assisting him, Watters must decide whether the cases are genuinely separate or connected by people moving through the same crowded city. A mysterious stranger and the targeting of vulnerable children give the inquiry greater urgency, while Dundee's sharp divisions of class and occupation make it easy for criminals to disappear between respectable streets and poorer districts.