Victorian Underworld
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1920s fiction
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Author_Donald Thomas
British Library Classics
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Classic crime fiction
cosy crime
detective
Endeavour
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if you like Agatha Christie
if you like Dorothy L Sayers
if you like Lord Peter Wimsey
if you like Midsomer Murders
if you like Miss Marple
if you like Poirot
Jessica Fellowes
Mitford Murders
murder
Sherlock Holmes
slums
The Detection Club
Victorian crime
Product details
- ISBN 9781471916632
- Weight: 41g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 18 Sep 2014
- Publisher: The Murder Room
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Donald Thomas introduces us to the slums and fetid courtyards of nineteenth-century London and in doing so provides a sweeping portrait of the vast world that did not accept "Victorian Values". The villainy is outstanding. It is also entertaining. The author has a practised eye for the best anecdotes and presents amazing characters, some of whom come equipped with names that sound positively Dickensian . . . a wonderful profile of Victorian London' The Spectator
Donald Thomas was born in Somerset and educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and Balliol College, Oxford. He holds a personal chair in the University of Wales, Cardiff, now Cardiff University. His numerous crime novels include two collections of Sherlock Holmes stories and a hugely successful historical detective series written under the pen name Francis Selwyn and featuring Sergeant Verity of Scotland Yard, as well as gritty police procedurals written under the name of Richard Dacre. He is also the author of seven biographies and a number of other non-fiction works, and won the Gregory Prize for his poems, Points of Contact. He lives in Bath with his wife.
