The Solitary House: A Novel
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品牌: Lynn Shepherd
基本信息出版社:Delacorte Press (2012年5月1日)精装:352页正文语种:英语ISBN:0345532422条形码:9780345532428商品尺寸:16.6 x 3 x 24.2 cm商品重量:572 gASIN:0345532422您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Lynn Shepherd’s first acclaimed novel of historical suspense,Murder at Mansfield Park,
brilliantly reimagined the time of Jane Austen. Now, in this spellbinding new triumph, she introduces an unforgettable duo of detectives into the gaslit world of Dickens.
London, 1850. Charles Maddox had been an up-and-coming officer for the Metropolitan police until a charge of insubordination abruptly ended his career. Now he works alone, struggling to eke out a living by tracking down criminals. Whenever he needs it, he has the help of his great-uncle Maddox, a legendary “thief taker,” a detective as brilliant and intuitive as they come.
On Charles’s latest case, he’ll need all the assistance he can get.
To his shock, Charles has been approached by Edward Tulkinghorn, the shadowy and feared attorney, who offers him a handsome price to do some sleuthing for a client. Powerful financier Sir Julius Cremorne has been receiving threatening letters, and Tulkinghorn wants Charles to—discreetly—find and stop whoever is responsible.
But what starts as a simple, open-and-shut case swiftly escalates into something bigger and much darker. As he cascades toward a collision with an unspeakable truth, Charles can only be aided so far by Maddox. The old man shows signs of forgetfulness and anger, symptoms of an age-related ailment that has yet to be named.
Intricately plotted and intellectually ambitious,The Solitary Houseis an ingenious novel that does more than spin an enthralling tale: it plumbs the mysteries of the human mind.媒体推荐Advance praise forThe Solitary House
“Expertly, Shepherd has re-created Dickensian London but made it anew so that I never felt ‘why would you re-do Dickens’ but did feel, ‘why has no one done this before?’ . . . A cracking good story, well told.”—New Books(U.K.)
“A highly compelling, immaculately written nineteenth-century murder mystery with a lot of Dickensian references in the language . . . an engaging read.”—The Independent