# Black Mirror

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- Authors: [Winifred Duke](https://www.bookquiver.com/winifred-duke)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2026-08-20
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction

## Description

In the dock stood a girl, but could she be the one who had lately entered and was seated between her female companions?... Even the judge, sitting in Mr. Justice Deidpole''s seat, was unfamiliar, a wraith from another century. A faint perfume, as of herbs or wholesome flowers, stole to the young man''s nostrils... Was it reality, this scene, or a form of nightmare? In the 1930s, when a string of pearls is stolen from a wealthy guest at the Wheatsheaf hotel in Derriford, suspicion quickly falls on Ann Bacon, an 18-year-old maid. Though she protests her innocence, she is arrested and hauled up in front of the county court. In 1752, a rich traveller stays at the Cock Inn just outside the town, where she, too, is relieved of her pearls. Everyone is convinced of the guilt of Patience Passey, an 18-year-old serving girl at the inn, and she too is arrested and tried at the local assizes. Linking the two eras is a marshal of the court who starts to realise he may be the only person able to witness both cases first-hand.

## Editions

### Black Mirror

- Publisher: British Library
- ISBN: 978-07-1236-975-6
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2026-08-20
- Language: en_US