Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

Peter Ackroyd

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English

Vintage
01 October 1995

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction

'Mesmerising, macabre and totally brilliant' Daily Mail

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.

By: Peter Ackroyd
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 202g
ISBN: 9780749396596
ISBN 10: 0749396598
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 October 1995
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Ackroyd has written acclaimed biographies of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, William Blake, Shakespeare and Thomas More, as well as short books about Chaucer, J.M.W. Turner, Isaac Newton and most recently, Edgar Allan Poe. A bestselling biographer, historian, novelist and broadcaster, he holds a CBE for services to literature. He is the author of the London: The Biography and Thames: Sacred River, and lives in London.

Reviews for Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

Cerebral, rollicking murder-mystery. -- James Marriott * The Times * Mesmerising, macarbre and totally brilliant * Daily Mail * He has pulled off the greatest coup of all, a four-square crime novel...as aesthetically satisfying as it is morally shocking * Independent on Sunday * Knowledge fuels psychosis, but in Ackroyd's hands it also fuels a flawlessly good read * Observer * This brilliant novel pervades the midnight movies of the mind and makes the blood run chilly * Daily Mail *