The City of Shadows

The City of Shadows
Michael Russell

Longlisted for the CWA John Creasy New Blood Dagger Award 2013 and shortlisted for CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger Award 2014‘She looked up at the terraced house, with the closed shutters and the big room at the end of the long unlit corridor where the man who smiled too much did his work. She climbed the steps and knocked on the door…’Dublin 1934: Detective Stefan Gillespie arrests a German doctor and encounters Hannah Rosen desperate to find her friend Susan, a Jewish woman who had become involved with a priest, and has now disappeared.When the bodies of a man and woman are found buried in the Dublin mountains, it becomes clear that this case is about more than a missing person. Stefan and Hannah trace the evidence all the way across Europe to Danzig.In a strange city where the Nazi Party are gaining power, Stefan and Hannah are inching closer to the truth and soon find themselves in grave danger…

MICHAEL RUSSELL

The City of Shadows

For Anita

I have been here before,

But when or how I cannot tell;

I know the grass beyond the door,

The sweet keen smell.

‘Sudden Light’

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Table of Contents

Title Page (#ud5c62b0a-c0fd-59b5-8699-b3b20bf3efb4)

Dedication (#u7e7b9ae3-73f6-59e8-af66-796fb55725f2)

Epigraph (#u6f4f2551-3c1c-5d5b-89cd-29eab5024092)

Part One: Free State (#u90feab49-3271-5154-b087-feb09f8cba9b)

1. The Phoenix Park (#ue6002db7-0882-5be8-aa48-7af40ec06a11)

2. Merrion Square (#ue69b2575-f4ce-56fd-ac91-b4c8c4a6fc28)

3. Harold’s Cross (#u097f46a2-237d-550a-8fba-a1eb4c2149e3)

4. Stephen’s Green (#ubbe74e1d-6856-5c85-8a70-2ccd96c5652a)

5. Clanbrassil Street (#ua828c9a2-8c05-5da5-94d1-c96b733f0421)

6. Kilranelagh Hill (#u49b8cdf1-2457-5a79-b083-3218e6169dfc)

7. The Mater Hospital (#litres_trial_promo)

8. Kilmashogue (#litres_trial_promo)

9. The Gate (#litres_trial_promo)

10. Red Cow Lane (#litres_trial_promo)

11. Adelaide Road (#litres_trial_promo)

12. Weaver’s Square (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two: Free City (#litres_trial_promo)

13. Oliva Cathedral (#litres_trial_promo)

14. Danzig-Langfuhr (#litres_trial_promo)

15. Zoppot Pier (#litres_trial_promo)

16. Mattenbuden Bridge (#litres_trial_promo)

17. The Forest Opera (#litres_trial_promo)

18. Silberhütte (#litres_trial_promo)

19. The Westerplatte (#litres_trial_promo)

20. The Dead Vistula (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three: Free Will (#litres_trial_promo)

21. Glenmalure (#litres_trial_promo)

22. Dorset Street (#litres_trial_promo)

23. Westland Row (#litres_trial_promo)

24. Baltinglass Hill (#litres_trial_promo)

A Tale of Two Treaties (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

PART ONE

Free State

Inthe back drawing-room there was a quantity of medical and electrical apparatus. From the ceiling, operated by pulleys, was a large 170 centimetre shadowless operating lamp hanging over a canvas covered object – when the cover was removed it was found to be a gynaecological chair with foot rests. The detective sergeant found a specially padded belt that could be used in conjunction with the chair. Among the objects found in the drawing-room was a sterilising case, in the drawer of which were wads of cotton wool. In the office there was a cardboard box containing a dozen contraceptives and a revolver.