Cloete, Stuart THE ABDUCTORS

Cloete, Stuart  THE ABDUCTORS, Fontana/Collins, 1973.  Softcover in good condition, 480 pages.  Queen Victoria's reign gloried in modesty and delicacy to the point of prudery - but it also had its ugly underside. And of all the crawling things beneath that virtuous surface, none was more dreadful than the brutal traffic in young girls, many of them hardly more than children, who were abducted to stock the "knocking shops" of London and the depraved bordellos of the Continent and South America.