02330cam a2200337 i 4500 1109602229 TxAuBib 20240320120000.0 230707s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023028930 9780593545959 HRD 28.00 0593545958 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Raybourn, Deanna, author Grave robbery. A grave robbery [BOOK] / Deanna Raybourn. A grave robbery : A Veronica Speedwell mystery. First edition. New York : Berkley, 2024. 326 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Veronica Speedwell mystery, A "Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would do such a dreadful thing, and why? Sleuthing out the answer to this question sets Veronica and Stoker on their wildest adventure yet. From the underground laboratories of scientists experimenting with electricity to resurrect the dead in the vein of Frankenstein to the traveling show where Stoker once toured as an attraction, the gaslit atmosphere of London in October is the perfect setting for this investigation into the unknown. Through it all, the intrepid pair is always one step behind the latest villain--a man who has killed once and will stop at nothing to recover the body of the woman he loved. Will they unmask him in time to save his next victim? Or will they become the latest figures to be immortalized in his collection of horrors?". 20240320. Missing persons Fiction. Women private investigators Fiction. Great Britain History 1837-1901 Victoria Fiction. Mystery fiction. A Veronica Speedwell mystery.