- Fiction, Serial murders in fiction, Serial murders, Trials (Murder)
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.
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Grave, plot-driven, meticulous and nostalgic.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Peter Ackroyd
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 281
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton, Sinclair-Stevenson, Edhasa
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Spanish, Russian, English, French
- ISBN
- 9785936360022
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Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. - Wikipedia
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