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" Victorian London is vividly brought to life . . . For an atmospheric picture of the period, it's hard to beat."
- "Sunday Telegraph
"Praise for Lee Jackson: "
"" Lee Jackson's Dickensian style of narrative gives an authentic Victorian voice to Metropolitan Murder. Once again, Mr. Jackson has succeeded in creating the atmosphere of nineteenth-century London, with its respectable veneer hiding a vicious underworld."
- "Sunday Telegraph"
" London Dust . . . is a powerful and evocative novel that brings the past, and its dead, to life again."
- "Guardian"
- "Sunday Telegraph
"Praise for Lee Jackson: "
"" Lee Jackson's Dickensian style of narrative gives an authentic Victorian voice to Metropolitan Murder. Once again, Mr. Jackson has succeeded in creating the atmosphere of nineteenth-century London, with its respectable veneer hiding a vicious underworld."
- "Sunday Telegraph"
" London Dust . . . is a powerful and evocative novel that brings the past, and its dead, to life again."
- "Guardian"
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'Victorian London is vividly brought to life...For an atmospheric picture of the period, it's hard to beat' Sunday Telegraph
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved this book, I have not read a murder mystery before but love historical novels so thought I would give this a go. Jackson has written a powerful and evocative novel which brings the past alive again. Victorian London with its gas lit groves, dark side streets, the sounds of carts clattering over cobbles and the hidden underground life are described in perfect detail by Jackson.
The novel opens by introducing the reader to the two detectives dealing with the cases of murder that have been occuring within Cremorne Gardens - the last pleasure ground on the bank of the Thames. The victims were female and murdered quite brutally, needless to say the detectives are on a race against time to catch who they refer to as 'The Cutter'. It reminded me of the tragic fate of Jack the Ripper's victims, it is set in a similar area and you assume that these females were prostitutes also. However, the deaths really start to mount up as do the clues as to 'who dunnit' and I found myself racing through the book, changing my mind every now and again as to who I believed was to blame. This book really does have a lot of twists and keeps you guessing. Some twists I saw coming, others were a real surprise.
All in all this is a brilliant book and a definite page turner.
The novel opens by introducing the reader to the two detectives dealing with the cases of murder that have been occuring within Cremorne Gardens - the last pleasure ground on the bank of the Thames. The victims were female and murdered quite brutally, needless to say the detectives are on a race against time to catch who they refer to as 'The Cutter'. It reminded me of the tragic fate of Jack the Ripper's victims, it is set in a similar area and you assume that these females were prostitutes also. However, the deaths really start to mount up as do the clues as to 'who dunnit' and I found myself racing through the book, changing my mind every now and again as to who I believed was to blame. This book really does have a lot of twists and keeps you guessing. Some twists I saw coming, others were a real surprise.
All in all this is a brilliant book and a definite page turner.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Bought this because it was tagged as being like a Jack The Ripper style murder mystery - this was so far from the truth. It was an easy read, but very shallow story, got better towards the end, but really a bit lame. Just got so fed up with main policeman being referred to as Decimus Webb all the time, I know that's his name, but it's so naff and gets a bit repetative why not just call him Webb and done with it. Sorry but book left me very negative about reading anything by Lee Jackson again.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Set in Victorian London this is a murder mystery with more than a touch of Anne Perry with its engagement with the dark and sexual underside to the late C19th.
In Cremorne Gardens (the eponymous pleasure garden) in Chelsea a man is stalking attractive young girls and cutting off their hair. The police are called in to investigate and come up against an obessive Reverend determined to shut down the gardens because of their impact on the morals of the area; and a neighbouring stockbroker and his family. And then the murders begin...
The problem I had with this book is that it's all surface and no depth, a bit like biting into a meringue: it looks substantial but then you find yourself with a mouthful of air...
Jackson creates atmosphere (albeit with none of the tangibility of a real Victorial novelist) but the story is very superficial. When we get to the denouement, via a rather clumsy last-minute twist, we're left no closer to understanding WHY anyone did what they did. Personally I prefer a bit more 'psychology' to my mysteries, however cod it might be. Here there were no clues, no development that left the reader pitched against the book's detective, no gradual uncovering of the truth, no tension.
And the rather odd style of writing constantly in the present tense gets a little tiring at times.
So overall this is a rather slight murder mystery which taps into the fashion that sees all Victorial culture as ultimately being pruriently about sex, and where the smooth writing promises far more than the story ultimately delivers.
In Cremorne Gardens (the eponymous pleasure garden) in Chelsea a man is stalking attractive young girls and cutting off their hair. The police are called in to investigate and come up against an obessive Reverend determined to shut down the gardens because of their impact on the morals of the area; and a neighbouring stockbroker and his family. And then the murders begin...
The problem I had with this book is that it's all surface and no depth, a bit like biting into a meringue: it looks substantial but then you find yourself with a mouthful of air...
Jackson creates atmosphere (albeit with none of the tangibility of a real Victorial novelist) but the story is very superficial. When we get to the denouement, via a rather clumsy last-minute twist, we're left no closer to understanding WHY anyone did what they did. Personally I prefer a bit more 'psychology' to my mysteries, however cod it might be. Here there were no clues, no development that left the reader pitched against the book's detective, no gradual uncovering of the truth, no tension.
And the rather odd style of writing constantly in the present tense gets a little tiring at times.
So overall this is a rather slight murder mystery which taps into the fashion that sees all Victorial culture as ultimately being pruriently about sex, and where the smooth writing promises far more than the story ultimately delivers.
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