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Title The wages of sin / Kaite Welsh
Author Welsh, Kaite
Imprint New York : Pegasus Crime, [2017]

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 Stadsbibl:Ljusets kalender vån 2 Deckare & thrillers på engelska  Deckare engelska    DUE 24-03-28  ---
Edition First Pegasus books edition
Descript 290 pages ; 24 cm
Note "Sarah Gilchrist fled London and a troubled past to join the University of Edinburgh's medical school in 1892, the first year it admitted women. Determined to become a doctor despite the misgivings of her family and society, Sarah quickly finds plenty of barriers at school itself; professors who refuse to teach their new pupils, male students determined to force out their female counterparts, and-- perhaps worst of all-- female peers who will do anything to avoid being associated with a fallen woman. Desperate for a proper education, Sarah turns to one of the city's ramshackle charitable hospitals for additional training. The Saint Giles Infirmary for Women ministers to the downtrodden and drunk, the thieves and whores with nowhere else to go. There, Sarah gets quite an education, but when Lucy-- a prostitute and one of Sarah's patients-- turns up in the university dissecting room as a battered corpse, Sarah finds herself drawn into a murky underworld of bribery, brothels, and body snatchers. Painfully aware of just how little separates her own life from that of her former patient's, Sarah is determined to find out what happened to Lucy and to bring those responsible for her death to justice. But as Sarah searches for answers in Edinburgh's dank alleyways, bawdy houses, and fight clubs, she comes closer and closer to uncovering one of Edinburgh's most lucrative trades-- and, in doing so, puts her own life at risk"--Dust jacket flap
A tale of murder, subversion and vice in which a female medical student in Victorian Edinburgh is drawn into a murder investigation when she recognizes one of the corpses in her anatomy lecture. Medical school is hard enough, but when you're one of only a handful of women at an elite Edinburgh institute in Victorian-era Scotland, "hard" doesn't begin to describe the experience. Such is life for the steadfast Sarah Gilchrist, who's braving the (unnamed) male-dominated school that may have accepted her on paper but certainly doesn't welcome her. A former London debutante who was raped by the son of a lord and then thrown in a sanatorium to be treated for her alleged "promiscuity," Sarah discovers that her past makes her even more of a pariah at school, though she does eventually find a friend. When she recognizes one of the anatomy class corpses as a working girl she met while volunteering at a clinic, Sarah is determined to uncover whether the girl committed suicide or was murdered
Subject 1800-1899
Women medical students -- Fiction
Public hospitals -- 19th century -- Fiction
Prostitutes -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Women medical students -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Edinburgh (Scotland) -- 19th century -- Fiction
Historical fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Deckare
Thrillers
Historiska romaner
Romaner
Classmark 823/.92
ISBN/ISSN 9781681773322 (hardcover)
1681773325 (hardcover)
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