Last Violent Call by Chloe Gong - These Violent Delights Novellas - Young Adult - Paperback

Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781399712569. Publisher: Hodderscape (Hodder & Stoughton). Age Range: 14+. Overview. Last Violent Call brings fans of the These Violent Delights duology back to the gaslamp streets of 1920s Shanghai with two brand-new novellas, A Foul Thing and This Foul Murder. Set during the events of Foul Lady Fortune, this paperback collects both stories in a single volume, reuniting favourite characters Roma, Juliette, Benedikt and Marshall in fresh, atmospheric mysteries packed with gang rivalry, hidden monsters and slow-burn romance.. About the Book. This Foul Murder and A Foul Thing are two interconnected novellas that expand the world Chloe Gong built in These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends. In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have quietly become the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, keeping their heads down and their identities hidden - until reports of Russian girls turning up dead in nearby towns force them out of anonymity. What begins as a favour for an old contact spirals into a mystery that strikes far closer to home than either of them expects. In This Foul Murder, Benedikt and Marshall are dispatched by Roma to track down an elusive scientist, Lourens, and bring him back to Zhouzhuang before it's too late. Racing against the clock aboard the Trans-Siberian Express, the pair are forced to pose as investigators when a passenger is murdered mid-journey - and the deeper they dig, the more the killing seems t...