Under the Dragon's Tail (22 page)

ALSO BY MAUREEN JENNINGS

DETECTIVE MURDOCH MYSTERIES

Except the Dying

Under the Dragon’s Tail

Poor Tom Is Cold

Let Loose the Dogs

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Critical Raves for Maureen Jennings
Under the Dragon’s Tail

“Told in forthright detail and put in a social context that elicits real sympathy for characters bound by class and biology.”

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New York Times Book Review

“
Under the Dragon’s Tail
scores on two fronts. It is a great mystery that will enthrall fans of police procedurals. It is also a wonderful historical novel that brings to light the last decade of the nineteenth century in Victorian Toronto…. As with her debut novel, Maureen Jennings provides her fans with a stupendously stimulating historical mystery that will garner new readers for a rising star.”

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Feminist Mystery Reviews

“Grab a copy of
Under the Dragon’s Tail
…. This is a terrific series….[Jennings’s] stories bleed meticulous research and wonderful ability to describe this place and time. The dialogue, the politics, the men’s clubs and the theatre, the low people and the high people all ring true, letting the reader be absorbed into the story.”

–Mystery Collectors’ BookLine

Except the Dying
Anthony Nominee for Best First Novel

“A first novel enriched by the vividness of its period settings and animated by the lifelike characters caught up in its broad social sweep.”

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New York Times Book Review

“A chiller…impressive. An engaging historical mystery.”

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Houston Chronicle

“A mystery rich in incident and atmosphere.”

–Peter Lovesey

“Stunning. [Maureen Jennings’s] voice is unique, her prose haunting.”

–Miriam Grace Monfredo, author of the Seneca Falls/Glynis Tryon historical mysteries

“A winner. Provocative…finely flavored, credible, and detailed.”

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Library Journal

“Terrific…the best historical mystery of the year…. Murdoch is a fine creation…. We can’t wait to meet him again.”

–Mystery Collectors’ BookLine

Poor Tom Is Cold
A Drood Review of Mystery Favorite Book of the Year

“Jennings has laid strong claim to the Toronto of the late nineteenth century…and she cements her hold with this deft combination of mystery and social issues…a satisfying mystery perfectly wedded to its evocative setting.”

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Publishers Weekly

“Jennings generates considerable suspense with her unsettling tale…. A very fine example of what it takes to make a historical mystery work.”

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Booklist

Let Loose the Dogs

“The fourth and perhaps darkest and most complex novel in this well-received Victorian series.”

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Publishers Weekly

“No author has mined Toronto’s past–specifically, the Victorian era of the 1890s–with the dedication to detail of mystery writer Maureen Jennings….
Let Loose the Dogs
follows Murdoch through a dense plot centred on a blood-thirsty gambling event of the era.”

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Toronto Star

“The most generously plotted of Murdoch’s four cases, but the one whose constant reminders of mortality…are the most piercing.”

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Kirkus Reviews

Copyright © 1998 by Maureen Jennings

All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written consent of the publisher–or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency–is an infringement of the copyright law.

National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Jennings, Maureen
Under the dragon’s tail / Maureen Jennings.

“A Detective Murdoch mystery”.
eISBN: 978-1-55199-281-5

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