Kill-Devil And Water
From the author of The Last Days of Newgate
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2009
Summary
London: 1840. The economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the capital’s poor neighbourhoods.
Pyke, still grieving over the death of his wife and struggling to shoulder his responsibilities as a father, is in debtors’ prison, having lost his home and reached the edge of bankruptcy. Fitzroy Tilling, now head of the new Metropolitan Police Force gives Pyke his freedom, but in return he must agree to investigate the brutal dea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753825976 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 075382597X |
| Author: | Andrew Pepper |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 286g |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 282mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Pyke Mystery |
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‘The novel drips with all the atmospheric detail of a pre-Victorian murder mystery “pea-soupers”, dingy lanterns and laudanum’ - THE TIMES
‘In its urgency and rawness… KILL-DEVIL AND WATER goes further than simply clever and diverting literary appropriation’ - TLS‘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 OUTAbout The Author
Andrew Pepper
Andrew Pepper lives in Belfast where he is a lecturer in English at Queen’s University.
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