Rayma, from the Reference Department downtown, presented a Courtyard Book Chat book talk on some highlights from the full-length Murder by Gaslight booklist, available on the BookGuide site. You can click on that link to see the full list, or on any of the covers or titles below for the specific volumes she discussed in her presentation!

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
by Peter Ackroyd

A Grave Coffin
by Gwendoline Butler

The Great Stink
by Clare Clark

A Free Man of Color
by Barbara Hambly

Tuncture of Death
by Ray Harrison

The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
by Peter Lovesey

The Piano Tuner
by Daniel Mason

The Cater Street Hangman
by Anne Perry

The Face of a Stranger
by Anne Perry

Lestrade and the Ripper
by M.J. Trow

Dr. Mortimore and the Aldgate Mystery
by Gerard Williams

Hunting Midnight
by Richard Zimler

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
by Daniel Pool [942.08 Poo]

For those interested in researching the actual Victorian era.

The Victorians
by A.N. Wilson [942.081 Wil]

For those interested in researching the actual Victorian era.

Inventing the Victorians What We Think We Know About Them and Why We're Wrong
by Matthew Sweet [942.081 Swe]

For those interested in researching the actual Victorian era.