The Revenge of Captain Paine

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Pepper is a lecturer in American Writing and Contemporary Crime Fiction at Queen's University! Belfast. His first novel! THE LAST DAYS OF NEWGATE! was shortlisted for the CWA NEW BLOOD AWARD. He lives in Belfast with his partner and children. Klappentext A headless corpse in Huntingdon! the disappearance of a female trial witness! and the apparent suicide of a wealthy railway contractor--if Pyke thought that by leaving the murky world of the Bow Street Runners he could escape the violence of pre-Victorian England! he was very much mistaken. It is 1834! and with the birth of the Industrial Revolution! railway fever sweeps the country. Pyke is uneasy with the luxury his aristocratic marriage has brought him! and when he is asked to unofficially investigate a decapitation in Cambridgeshire! he can not resist the chance to resuscitate the old skills. Terrific second novel set in the criminal underworld of pre-Victorian England from the author of THE LAST DAYS OF NEWGATE Zusammenfassung Terrific second novel set in the criminal underworld of pre-Victorian England from the author of THE LAST DAYS OF NEWGATE

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Andrew Pepper
• Editore: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.06.2008
• EAN: 9780753824009
• ISBN: 978-0-7538-2400-9
• Pagine: 544
• Dimensioni: 199 mm x 133 mm x 35 mm
• Serie: Pyke Mystery; Pyke Mysteries; Pyke Mystery; Pyke Mysteries
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli > Polizieschi, thriller, spionaggio