Inspector Minahan Makes A Stand: The Missing Girls of England
by O' Donnell, Bridget
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About This Item
London: Picador, 1946. reprint. As New. octavo. softback with stiff wrappers xvi + 368pp., text ills., notes, appends., bibliog., index, In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marked out for a gentleman in a city brothel, they were legally trafficked to Brussels, Paris and beyond. All the while, the Establishment turned a blind eye. That is, until one policeman wrote an incendiary report. Disgraced for testifying against a violent colleague, Irish inspector Jeremiah Minahan was transferred to the backwater of Chelsea
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- Title
- Inspector Minahan Makes A Stand: The Missing Girls of England
- Author
- O' Donnell, Bridget
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Edition
- reprint
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Size
- octavo
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- True Crime;
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