The Shadow under the Scalpel

Name: The Shadow under the Scalpel
Author: Those Years

by Those Years

ongoing Mystery Suspense Adventure Female Lead

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About This Novel

In the late autumn of 1888, the thick fog in London was wrapped in bloody secrets. When the body of William Howard, a top student at the Royal College of Medicine, was placed on the dissecting table, marigold-scented antiseptic liquid oozed from the precise incisions in the chest, and the six-pointed star badge awarded by Queen Victoria was embedded in his throat - Inspector Gray, a retired military doctor, realized that this was by no means an ordinary murder case. As the investigation deepens, bizarre corpses emerge from the fog: Fetal specimens with slit eyes floating in the sandalwood cargo box, blood-stained silver nameplates nailed to the tongues of Indian sailors, sapphire necklaces from aristocratic balls reflecting cold light in the nail beds of corpses... All the clues are like poison ivy, leading to the marriage between the shipping upstart and a centuries-old family, and William's fiancée Lillian Blackwood is standing at the center of the conspiracy spider web. From the corpse-stealing black market on the banks of the Thames to the cursed contract at the Mumbai docks, from the intercostal muscles burned by the electric current in the autopsy room to the beating fetal heart in the aristocratic cellar, Inspector Gray travels through steam and blood, gradually uncovering a heinous crime in the name of "medical progress". This is a dark requiem from the Victorian era, When the scalpel cuts through the empire's finery, What gushed out was not only the organs, but also the immortal greed of the powerful.