Kill-Devil and Water

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 Pyke returns in a gripping tale of brutal murder and deception! set in the back streets of Victorian London and the cane fields of Jamaica. "Pyke is violent, vengeful and conflicted in the best tradition of detectives. His story takes in grisly murder and torture, and uses 1800s London in the same way that hard-boiled fiction uses Los Angeles as a mirror of a corrupt society." --"Time Out" on "The Last Days of Newgate" Zusammenfassung Pyke returns in a gripping tale of brutal murder and deception, set in the back streets of Victorian London and the cane fields of Jamaica.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Andrew Pepper, Pepper Andrew
• Editore: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.08.2009
• EAN: 9780753825976
• ISBN: 978-0-7538-2597-6
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 282 mm x 254 mm x 27 mm
• Serie: Phoenix; Pyke Mystery; Pyke Mystery
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Literary, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary