The Whispering Gallery
by Mark Sanderson
Mark Sanderson does for the 30s what Jake Arnott did for 60s London ? vividly revealing its hidden underworld in this follow up to Snow Hill On a sweltering day in July 1937, reporter John Steadman is in London?s St Paul?s Cathedral waiting for his girlfriend ? But romance is pushed aside when he witnesses a man falling to his death from the Whispering Gallery, killing a priest in the process. Did he jump or was he pushed? Two days later Johnny receives the first of a series of grim packages at the offices of his newspaper, the Daily News. Each contains the body part of a woman and an enigmatic note, one of which says that he will be the murderer?s final victim. To catch a killer, Johnny must set himself up as bait ? with police and a fascinated public looking on. But he still has to uncover the tragic truth behind the double-death in the cathedral?