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The Burying Ground / Janet Kellough.
A sexton asks Lewis to help when someone starts digging up the graves in the Strangers' Burying Ground and the community is unconcerned.
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- ISBN: 9781459724709 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 286 p. ; 18 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn, 2015.
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| Subject: | Lewis, Thaddeus > Fiction. Circuit riders > Ontario > Toronto > Fiction. Grave robbing > Ontario > Toronto > Fiction. Irish > Ontario > Toronto > Fiction. Yorkville (Toronto, Ont.) > History > Nineteenth century > Fiction. Ontario > History > 1841-1867 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery stories. Historical fiction. |
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Someone is digging up the graves at the Strangersâ Burying Ground in Toronto â the final resting place of criminals, vagrants, indigents, and alcoholics â and the only person who seems to care is the sexton, Morgan Spicer. The authorities are unconcerned; after all, for years the growing village of Yorkville has been clamouring to have the bodies moved and the Burying Ground closed.
The distraught Spicer enlists the aid of his old friend Thaddeus Lewis, who has unexpectedly returned to preaching on the Yonge Street Circuit. The graveyardâs secrets lead Lewis and his son Luke into the hidden heart of 1851 Toronto where they discover a trail of corruption and blackmail tied to an old sexual scandal and a dangerous enemy intent on vengeance. - Univ of Toronto Pr
Thaddeus reunites with an old friend in less-than-cheerful circumstances to catch a grave robber who is preying on a vagrants' cemetery and stealing more than bodies. The two soon find themselves entangled in a mystery that stretches back to the typhus epidemic of 1847, and the legacy of a scandal many would prefer left buried. - Univ of Toronto Pr
Someone is digging up the graves at the Strangers’ Burying Ground in Toronto — the final resting place of criminals, vagrants, indigents, and alcoholics — and the only person who seems to care is the sexton, Morgan Spicer. The authorities are unconcerned; after all, for years the growing village of Yorkville has been clamouring to have the bodies moved and the Burying Ground closed.
The distraught Spicer enlists the aid of his old friend Thaddeus Lewis, who has unexpectedly returned to preaching on the Yonge Street Circuit. The graveyard’s secrets lead Lewis and his son Luke into the hidden heart of 1851 Toronto where they discover a trail of corruption and blackmail tied to an old sexual scandal and a dangerous enemy intent on vengeance.
