The Search for Maggie Hare — Elizabeth Byrd

In the Victorian elegance of her Edinburgh home, Dorothea, an orphan raised in the graces of the upper class, read the newspaper account of the return of Maggie Hare, the infamous mass-murderer. Then, all at once she stared at the villainous woman's face and screamed with recognition and horror...Could it be? Was that hellish visage the face of her mother?..........She had to know.

Through the insidious streets of Glasgow and London she searched, dressed in rags, mingling with prostitutes and thieves, avoiding the indecent proposals of the rakish pimp Slerne---for whom she felt a depraved infatuation---as she was drawn down, down, into the nightmare world of the devil incarnate...Maggie Hare!