ROOKERY: The Brutal Reality Behind the Dickensian Myth

London, 1849: The Smell Before the Coffins.  ​Forget the flickering gaslight and the "e;lovable rogues"e; of Charles Dickens. In ROOKERY: The Filth, the Fear, and the Lie of Victorian London, the fog is stripped away to reveal a brutal forensic reality.  ​Using parliamentary papers, sanitary commission reports, and sworn testimony, this investigative history performs a "e;post-mortem"e; on the Vic...