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Adah Flint, the Liberty's Searcher, must examine the little girl's body to determine her identity and discover the cause of death.  Adah's search for the truth takes her through the cosmopolitan backstreets of early 19th century London, with its inns and prisons, street markets and prostitution, cruelty and compassion.  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