The Lamplighter - Rilegato

O'Neill, Anthony

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ISBN 10: 0755303326 ISBN 13: 9780755303328

Casa editrice: Headline Review, 2003

Riassunto

In Edinburgh, 1886, the brutal murder of a university professor, coming soon after the killing of a retired lighthouse keeper and quickly followed by a bizarre exhumation, has the entire city on edge. Carus Groves, a conceited and prejudiced police inspector, is assigned the case. Baffled by the superhuman strength required to rip two men apart and drag up a coffin, Groves latches on to the odd behaviour of an anguished young woman, Evelyn Todd, who claims to have dreamed of the crimes in great detail. Meanwhile, two unlikely friends - Thomas McKnight, a jaded Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, and Joseph Canavan, a compassionate cemetery attendant - are drawn inexorably towards Evelyn and the secrets of her tormented psyche. They discover her extraordinary imagination was violently suppressed in childhood, but in her dreams she retains the image of 'the lamplighter' - whose presence outside her orphanage she heard each evening, and whose face is concoction of all the friendly men she knew. Evelyn now insists the killer is this lamplighter. And as a strange beast gallops through Edinburgh's misty alleys, and Groves's investigation flounders, McKnight and Canavan use the only weapons they possess - reason, logic, intuition, philosophy and sheer luck - to unearth the secrets buried in the dark recesses of Evelyn's mind...

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As terrifying as a child's nightmares - and as wonderful as waking from
them

(Kirkus Reviews)

'As terrifying as a child's nightmares - and as wonderful as waking from
them' Kirkus Reviews

(Kirkus Reviews)

'Stunning...O'Neill delivers one surprising denouement
after another in this assured novel...By turns genuinely frightening,
thought-provoking, and droll...it's an achievement worthy of Highsmith
herself' Book Forum

(Book Forum)

Stunning...O'Neill delivers one surprising denouement
after another in this assured novel...By turns genuinely frightening,
thought-provoking, and droll...it's an achievement worthy of Highsmith
herself

(Book Forum)

O'Neill's chillingly atmospheric story of evil and the power of the
imagination adds new terrors to the gothic, gas-lit depths of Edinburgh's
past. Follow his tale through these streets only if you dare. You may not
come back alive

(Stephen Booth, author of BLACK DOG and BLOOD ON TH)

'It's a remarkable work, full of erudition and beautifully written. It's also
the darkest thing I've read since Peter Ackroyd's HAWKSMOOR' Quintin Jardine

(Quintin Jardine)

'O'Neill's chillingly atmospheric story of evil and the power of the
imagination adds new terrors to the gothic, gas-lit depths of Edinburgh's
past. Follow his tale through these streets only if you dare. You may not
come back alive' Stephen Booth, author of Black Dog and Blood on the
Tongue

(Stephen Booth)

It's a remarkable work, full of erudition and beautifully written. It's also
the darkest thing I've read since Peter Ackroyd's HAWKSMOOR

(Quintin Jardine)

[A] spellbinding tale of a soul divided... O'Neill is a masterful storyteller (Publishers Weekly)

'[A] spellbinding tale of a soul divided... O'Neill is a masterful storyteller' Publishers Weekly (starred review) (Publishers Weekly)

Descrizione del libro:

Gripping, frightening, and elegantly written, THE LAMPLIGHTER is a spectacular thriller from a brilliant new author: 'As terrifying as a child's nightmares - and as wonderful as waking from them' Kirkus Reviews

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• Editore: Headline Review
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0755303326
• ISBN 13: 9780755303328
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320