The Great Stink

Clare Clark (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2006
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-101833-1 (ISBN)

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William May returns to London after the horrors of the Crimean War. Scarred and fragile though he is, he lands a job at the heart of Bazalgette's transformation of the London sewers. There, in the darkness of the stinking tunnels beneath the rising towers of Victorian London, May discovers another side of the city and remembers a disturbing, violent past. And then the corruption of the growing city soon begins to overwhelm him and a violent murder is committed. Will the sewers reveal all and show that the world above ground is even darker and more threatening than the tunnels beneath? Beautifully written, evocative and compelling, with a fantastically vivid cast of characters, Clare Clarke's first book is a rich and suspenseful novel that draws the reader right into Victorian London and into the worlds of its characters desperately attempting to swim the tides of change.

Clare Clark was born in London in 1967. A Senior Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, she graduated with a Double First in History. The Great Stink is her first novel. She is married with two children and lives in London.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.4.2006
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
Schlagworte	Englisch; Krimis/Thriller • London, Geschichte; Krimis/Thriller
ISBN-10	0-14-101833-X / 014101833X
ISBN-13	978-0-14-101833-1 / 9780141018331
Zustand	Neuware