The Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders - Hardcover

Ackroyd, Peter

 
9780385477079: The Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385477074 ISBN 13: 9780385477079
Verlag: Doubleday, 1995

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In 1880, with London's poverty-stricken Limehouse district being terrorized by a series of brutal murders, Elizabeth Cree is on trial for the poisoning of her husband, but she may also be the one person who knows the truth about the killings. By the author of Hawksmoor.

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tar returns with an addictive tale of murder in Victorian London. Peter Ackroyd is "our most exciting and original writer... one of the few English writers of his generation who will be read in a hundred years' time." -- The Sunday Times (London) The Trial Of Elizabeth Cree is without a doubt Peter Ackroyd's breakout book. It has all the erudition and literary brilliance we expect of Ackroyd, yet it is as vivid, scary, and spellbinding as the best of Edgar Allan Poe. The year is 1880, the setting London's poor and dangerous Limehouse district, home to immigrants and criminals. A series of brutal murders has occurred, and, as Ackroyd leads us down London's dark streets, the sense of time and place becomes overwhelmingly immediate and real. We experience the sights and sounds of the E

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Verlag
Doubleday
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385477074
ISBN 13 
9780385477079
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