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Death and the runaways

Death and the runaways

Book 2025

"Two years before she would conceive of Frankenstein, sixteen-year-old Mary Godwin becomes captivated by the grim murder of a pregnant shopgirl and the disappearance of her stepbrother, involving her stepsister Jane 'Claire' Clairmont and the seductive poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to solve the crime ... London, June 1814 : On a day out in Hyde Park to celebrate the peace treaty with France, Mary and Jane are less than charmed by their brother Charle...