The Diary of a Murder (Victorian London Ebooks)
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in The Diary of a Murder for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
No one knows Victorian London as Lee Jackson does - historical fiction doesn't come more authentic than this. --Andrew Taylor
Product Description
Jacob Jones is a respectable clerk at the Crystal Palace Company, with a pretty young bride and a delightful new home in Islington. When his wife is murdered, everything points to his guilt, even a handwritten confession. But the police discover Jacob Jones's diary, which tells a different story. They learn of a husband trying to bury his sordid past; a wife afflicted by a deep personal tragedy; an unlikely love affair that leads to a fatal conclusion. Is Jones' diary a confession? An attempt to exonerate himself? A study in madness? Read the police investigation read the diary itself and uncover the truth.
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I took a chance on this,it did not have any reviews and I usually let reviews, whether they be good or bad guide my purchases.In this case I am glad I trusted my instincts.
It really is a clever tale, written in a authentic, Victorian style that perfectly captured the life and times of that era.There is a sense that something is 'amiss' in the diaries of a murder,the police suspect it and so will you, you may guess the ending or you may not,but either way its a good twist.The clues are there to help you but very implicit,so be careful in your reading if you want to work it out.
Quite simply,a gem of a book,(sorry author for such a gross cliché!)but it is,it is now one of my my 'best' kindle finds and I will be looking out for this authors other works.
It really is a clever tale, written in a authentic, Victorian style that perfectly captured the life and times of that era.There is a sense that something is 'amiss' in the diaries of a murder,the police suspect it and so will you, you may guess the ending or you may not,but either way its a good twist.The clues are there to help you but very implicit,so be careful in your reading if you want to work it out.
Quite simply,a gem of a book,(sorry author for such a gross cliché!)but it is,it is now one of my my 'best' kindle finds and I will be looking out for this authors other works.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is such a well crafted story, moving smoothly between the diary and the murder investigation that I could not stop reading it. The Victorian details of the period were enough to paint a picture of the time without becoming tedious. The author is very skilled and I have read his other books with equal pleasure.
One thing only spoilt some of the enjoyment and that is that the second half of the book has so many typos - words missing or left in when they should have been deleted. It seems that the copy-reader must have got fed-up half way through and not corrected the second half of the book. Sloppy production - was this just the paperback edition I wonder. Still it did not spoil the story and is only a slight complaint compared with the excellence of the plot and an ending I did not see coming.
One thing only spoilt some of the enjoyment and that is that the second half of the book has so many typos - words missing or left in when they should have been deleted. It seems that the copy-reader must have got fed-up half way through and not corrected the second half of the book. Sloppy production - was this just the paperback edition I wonder. Still it did not spoil the story and is only a slight complaint compared with the excellence of the plot and an ending I did not see coming.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Oh dear, I dound the stilted, mock-victorian writing of this book rather tedious, and gave up just under half way. By this stage I wasn't interested in 'who-dun-it' or what the mystery was, I just couldn't carry on reading it.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A cracking good read!
This reads like an old fashioned morality tale, told through the eyes of Jacob Jones, a respectable, rather priggish clerk. Read more
Published 16 days ago by val roberts
A rollicking good murder mystery!
I have read every one of Lee Jackson's books, partly because I am fascinated by Victorian London and partly because I am familiar with most of the locations he writes about (I... Read more
Published 8 months ago by John Standish
The Diary of a Murder
The Willises are concerned because their married daughter, Dora Jones, has not disappeared after planning to visit them in Chelsea. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Elizabeth Varadan
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
