City of Light (City of Mystery) by Kim Wright

Author:Kim Wright [Wright, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2012-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

“Read how young Davy spent his morning. Dear God, on the way back to the apartment remind me to stop and buy the biggest bouquet of roses in Paris for Emma, for she was surely right.”

Tom quickly scanned the telegram and then looked up at Trevor, his brow wrinkled in uncertainty.

“Don’t you see what it means?” Trevor asked. “We have two men, Charles Hammond in England and Armand Delacroix in Paris, both of whom are allegedly procuring funds for the Exposition Universelle. There is no satisfactory explanation for how these men, both of common birth and lower-class background, might have to come to move in the elevated social circles required for such work, or why they might be so successful at obtaining investments from wealthy patrons. And now we learn that Charles Hammond’s infamous Cleveland Street brothel supplied not merely young boys, but young boys whom he had trained to dress and act as girls. Bizarre as this fact may be, we must add to it the even more incredible fact that a boy dressed like a girl has been recently pulled from the Seine in Paris. Obviously, the boy in front of us didn’t float here all the way from London. So what can we conclude?”

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