Let Loose the Dogs by Maureen Jennings (2013, Trade Paperback)

McClelland & Stewart

0771046766

9780771046766

117186881

Let Loose the Dogs

512 Pages

English

Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Family Life, Crime

2013

Fiction

Maureen Jennings

Murdoch Mysteries Ser.

Trade Paperback

1.4 in

14.8 Oz

8 in

5.3 in

Trade

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  "No author has mined Toronto's past . . . with the dedication to detail of mystery writer Maureen Jennings. . . . Let Loose the Dogs follows Murdoch through a dense plot centred on a bloodthirsty gambling event of the era." - Toronto Star   "Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero." - New York Times Book Review   "Perhaps [the] darkest and most complex novel in this well-received Victorian series." - Publishers Weekly   "The most generously plotted of Murdoch's four cases, but the one whose constant reminders of mortality . . . are the most piercing." - Kirkus Reviews, "Not only the most generously plotted of Murdoch's four cases… but the one whose constant reminders of mortality… are the most piercing." Kirkus Reviews "No author has mined Toronto's past . . . with the dedication to detail of mystery writer Maureen Jennings. . . . Let Loose the Dogs follows Murdoch through a dense plot centred on a bloodthirsty gambling event of the era." - Toronto Star "Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero." - New York Times Book Review "Perhaps [the] darkest and most complex novel in this well-received Victorian series." - Publishers Weekly From the Paperback edition.

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Gorgeous new TV tie-in edition of Maureen Jennings's immensely popular Inspector Murdoch series, basis for the long-running The Murdoch Mysteries , now on CBC. In Let Loose the Dogs , Detective Murdoch's life and work overlap tragically. His sister, who long ago fled to a convent to escape their abusive father, is on her deathbed. Meanwhile, Harry Murdoch, the father whom Murdoch long ago shut out of his life, has been charged with murder and calls on his estranged son to prove his innocence. But, knowing his father, what is Murdoch to believe?