Friday, January 6, 2012

DAN LENO & THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM - Peter Ackroyd


Elizabeth Cree is hanged at the beginning of this book for the murder of her husband, but was she guilty?

We are then taken into the Victorian world of theatre and gross murder.

Ackroyd writes about London superbly and he has managed to combine this with a good crime novel, some wonderfully horrible writing here.(Published  1994)

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