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The Last Pleasure Garden

Inspector Webb 3

Lee Jackson

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English
Arrow
15 March 2007
Series: Inspector Webb
'Victorian London is vividly brought to life...

For an atmospheric picture of the period, it's hard to beat' Sunday Telegraph

A sinister figure stalks the gas-lit groves of Cremorne Gardens, the last pleasure-ground on the banks of the Thames. His weapon, a sharp pair of scissors. His victims, young women in the first bloom of youth. HIs crime - merely to remove a lock of their hair. Inspector Decimus Webb of Scotland Yard suspects a harmless lunatic is at large. But when morbid obsession turns to murder, even Webb's loyal sergeant begins to doubt his judgement.

As the press and his superiors clamour for answers, Webb's investigations lead him to Rose Perfitt, aspiring debutante and daughter of a respectable stock-broker. Will she fall prey to 'The Cutter' or does a worse fate beckon? One thing is certain - only Decimus Webb can save her.

Lee Jackson's third Inspector Webb novel takes the reader into the forgotten world of the Victorian pleasure-garden, in a gripping mystery of garish gas-light and dark secrets.
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Imprint:   Arrow
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   224g
ISBN:   9780099469247
ISBN 10:   0099469243
Series:   Inspector Webb
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

LEE JACKSON lives in London with his partner Joanne. His first book, London Dust, was shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award. He is fascinated by the social history of Victorian London and spends much of his time on the ongoing development of his website www.victorianlondon.org

Reviews for The Last Pleasure Garden: (Inspector Webb 3)

'Full of power and substance London Dust... is a powerful and evocative novel that brings the past, and its dead, to life again' * Guardian * 'Lee Jackson's Dickensian style of narrative gives and authentic Victorian voice to A Metropolitan Murder... Once again Mr. Jackson has succeeded in creating the atmosphere of nineteenth-century London, with its respectable veneer hiding a vicious underworld' * Sunday Telegraph * Victorian London is brought vividly to life from the very beginning... plenty of wry humour ...and engrossing historical detail * Time Out * Jackson's series is the best of current Victorian mysteries * Sunday Telegraph *


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