Anna Lord

The Penny Dreadful Curse (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Book 3 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.

England 1899. Dr Watson and Countess Volodymyrovna travel to the city of York. Someone is killing-off the authors who write cheap but popular penny dreadfuls, and Inspector Bird, a fervent admirer of Dr Watson, needs help.

The murder victims are all connected to Panglossian Publishing and it is imperative to match noms de plume to actual authors before the killer strikes again, but it appears that almost everyone in York is a 'dreadful' writer.

When a penniless guttersnipe is found hanging from a meat hook in the Shambles, Dr Watson and Countess V have their first real clue. In the dead boy's clenched hand is a torn scrap of paper with the letters BB.

After the death of yet another writer during a farcical highway robbery gone wrong, pseudonymous authors finally start outing themselves. But it is not until Countess V discovers the identity of the mysterious Roman Acle that the penny drops.

This Victorian murder mystery parallels the changes being witnessed today regarding the demise of traditional bookshops, the reinvention of publishing, popular versus proper literature, the secret lives of authors, and the inevitable result of endless rejection.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anna Lord
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310115257
• Artikelnr.: 69883350

Autorenporträt

Anna Lord has long been fascinated by myth and metaphor, and the way they inform human thought. With an English and Philosophy degree focused on metaphysical poets and logical thinking there was only one creative avenue for her to follow: two rational detectives battling to make sense of a superstitious gas-lit world.

Anna's Ukrainian background, coupled with a love for whodunnits, Victorian settings, and Gothic characters, inspires her literary world and makes the books a joy to write.

The result is her new series: Watson and the Countess.

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