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A Foundation for Fallen Women. A chess automaton. An impossible theft. Reluctant inspector of vice, Lawless must take a fruitless reckoning of London's shadowy nether world. Hyposcrisy, double standards: just what we expect from stuffy Victorian society. But Lawless was not expecting the trail that his questions open up: from the erotic booksellers of Holywell Street down the darkening passageways of Haymarket bordellos to backstreet cast-offs of the high life. When reputations are at threat, those running the show can be merciless in defending them.

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The action moves with dizzying speed from the highest quarters in the land to the vilest slums and low dives of the teeming city. ... Thoroughly enjoyable. Allan Massie, The Scotsman First-rate Victorian crime fiction. --The Herald First rate Victorian crime fiction. - The Herald Engaging, smart and witty - a highly alternative take on Victorian crime. Long live Lawless! - Paul Johnson

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Will was born in Stirling, Scotland, in 1970. He appeared in Babes in the Wood aged nine, learned blues harmonica from his Latin teacher, and drove to California in a Volkswagen beetle. Despite writing plays and stories, he got a creditable degree and started singing in pubs and writing plays in Edinburgh. He moved to London to study acting with the renowned clown, Philippe Gaulier, and won two radio play competitions for LBC Radio. This was the beginning of his woes. Over the years, he's tried his hand at a variety of things in order to keep scribbling. He's acted in the longest play in the world, The Warp (around 24 hours). He's played guitar for the inimitable Philip Jeays from Vancouver to Edinburgh. He's driven actors, including the gangster, Mad Frankie Fraser. He's also translated Latin, taught Greek and guitar. He's even taught Geography, and Spanish, which he doesn't speak. He's tutored the Sugababes; they turned sixteen and never took the exam, but he did teach one to play Leo Sayer's 'When I Need Love'. Fetching up in Brazil he had the idea for Lawless & The Devil of Euston Square one dark windy night in 2002. During the process of writing it, he scribbled articles for magazines about sponges, weird musicians and bad English.

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