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Poor Tom Is Cold (2001)

by Maureen Jennings
(#4 in Detective Murdoch)

While hunting down the killer of a constable from his station, Jennings' likable detective, William Murdoch, is drawn to the plight of a young wife whose predatory stepchildren plan to shut her in an insane asylum to prevent her inheriting her husband's estate. With her ability to invoke the Toronto of a century ago and its many levels of society, the author finds under stones of silence the social outrages that so vividly trigger her mysteries.