Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

Name: Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN: 9780749396596

Peter Ackroyd

05/06/1995
Vintage

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem par Peter Ackroyd

Résumé

NOW AN UNMISSABLE FILM STARRING BILL NIGHY, DOUGLAS BOOTH AND OLIVIA COOKE. ‘Mesmerising, macabre and totally brilliant’ Daily Mail Before the Ripper, fear had another name. London, 1880. A series of gruesome murders attributed to the mysterious 'Limehouse Golem' strikes fear into the heart of the capital. Inspector John Kildare must track down this brutal serial killer in the damp, dark alleyways of riverside London. But how does Dan Leno, music hall star extraordinaire, find himself implicated in this crime spree, and what does Elizabeth Cree, on trial for the murder of her husband, have to hide? Peter Ackroyd brings Victorian London to life in all its guts and glory, as we travel from the glamour of the music hall to the slums of the East End, meeting George Gissing and Karl Marx along the way.