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003    OCoLC 
003    LT 
008    160617s2017    nyu           000 1 eng d 
020    9781681773322|q(hardcover) 
020    1681773325|q(hardcover) 
041 0  eng 
082 04 823/.92|223 
092 0  Deckare|bengelska 
100 1  Welsh, Kaite|4aut 
245 14 The wages of sin /|cKaite Welsh 
250    First Pegasus books edition 
264  1 New York :|bPegasus Crime,|c[2017] 
300    290 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "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 
520    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 
648  7 1800-1899|2fast 
650  0 Women medical students|vFiction 
650  0 Public hospitals|y19th century|vFiction 
650  0 Prostitutes|xCrimes against|vFiction 
650  0 Murder|xInvestigation|vFiction 
650  4 Women medical students|vFiction 
650  4 Murder|xInvestigation|vFiction 
651  4 Edinburgh (Scotland)|y19th century|vFiction 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd 
655  7 Mystery fiction.|2gsafd 
655  7 Detective and mystery fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Fiction.|2fast 
655  7 Deckare|2saogf 
655  7 Thrillers|2saogf 
655  7 Historiska romaner|2saogf 
655  7 Romaner|2saogf