Author

Publication

1998 - Vintage, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

70,250 words, Guess

Page Count

281 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • Better World BooksKQ-396-907
  • Better World Books9780749396596
  • Better World BooksKQ-050-352
  • Open LibraryOL24197742M

Classifications

  • LCCPR6051.C64D36 1995
  • LCCPR6051.C64 D36 1995

Alternate Titles

  • Dan Leno & the Limehouse Golem

Description

Ackroyd re-wrote the rules of the crime thriller with this cleverly conceived story, set in a very believable recreation of Victorian London. The author effortlessly blends fact and fiction as Dan Leno, king of the music-hall comedians is dragged into the investigation of one of London’s most notorious murders. When Karl Marx and Oscar Wilde are connected to the same crime the possibilities are endless. According to the Independent on Sunday ‘Ackroyd has pulled off the greatest coup of all, a four square crime novel…as aesthetically pleasing as it is morally shocking’. And the Observer called it ‘a flawlessly good read’.

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  • Dan Leno and the Limehouse GolemVintage1998

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