Why would anyone strangle a humble seamstress with no known enemies? When newly-married bookseller Victor Legris is asked to solve the murder of Louise Fontaine in the abattoir district of La Villette, he is initially baffled by the case.
This resource book offers ideas for developing the reading and writing aspects of literacy as well as an inspiration for historical investigation. For each of the four Victorian Flashbacks novels, there are five literacy lesson plans, each with at least one accompanying photocopiable worksheet.
'A first-class work of historical investigation.' Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon and Wellington
The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington.
