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LONDON, 1841, a teeming metropolis, a city of gaslight, new railroads, and steam-powered factories. Gangs roam the night streets; child thieves prey upon the old and the naive. The Metropolitan Detective Police are using new methods of criminal investigation, based on scientific thinking. Their efforts are an essential in England’s march toward the modern age. Over all her citizens, young Queen Victoria reigns as a wife, a sovereign, and a new mother. Her first child is a tiny princess, whose smile of innocence shines like a beam of light over troubled seas....