{"product_id":"kept-a-victorian-mystery-by-d-j-taylor","title":"Kept : A Victorian Mystery by D. J. Taylor","description":"\u003cp\u003eMadness, greed, love, obsession, Machiavellian plotting, and a great train robbery, in a captivating Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get—and keep—what they want\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAugust 1863. Henry Ireland, a failed landowner, dies unexpectedly in a riding accident, leaving a highly strung young widow. Not far away lives Ireland's friend James Dixey, a celebrated naturalist who collects strange trophies—a stuffed bear, a pet mouse, and a wolf that he keeps caged in the grounds of his decaying house, lost in the fog on the edge of the fens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poachers, Dewar and Dunbar, with their cargo of pilfered eggs; Esther the observant kitchen maid, pining to be reunited with her vanished admirer; the ancient lawyer Mr. Crabbe, made careless by snobbery; John Carstairs, in search of his cousin, the elusive widow; an enigmatic debt-collector, busily plotting an audacious robbery; various lowlife henchmen; a beady-eyed country curate who sees more than he should; and Captain McTurk of Scotland Yard, patiently investigating the circumstances of Mr. Ireland's death and many other things besides—all are drawn into a net of intrigue with wide and sinister implications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging from the loch-sides of Scotland to the slums of Clerkenwell, from the gentlemen's clubs of St. James's to the Yukon wilds, Kept is a gorgeously intricate novel about the urge to possess, at once a gripping investigation of some of the secret chambers of the human heart and a dazzling reinvention of Victorian life and passions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43567011856458,"sku":"6619i","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6619i.jpg?v=1777956521","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/kept-a-victorian-mystery-by-d-j-taylor","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}