- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan; First Edition edition (21 May 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0230747965
- ISBN-13: 978-0230747968
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 13.4 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 816,803 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A sinister brew...[McCreet] keeps a firm eye on structural machinery, giving us leisure to enjoy his stylistic sleights of hand, including the significant intrusion, at points through out the story of a mysterious omniscient narrator, who combines the functions of chorus and puppeteer.' -- Times Literary Supplement
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The new Victorian mystery from the author of The Incendiary's Trail
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There was nothing about this book I didn't like. The main characters were great (even the nasty ones) and the minor characters were sometimes fascinating (I'm thinking of the autistic savant Aubrey Alsthom, who is basically a nineteenth-century internet). The settings are well drawn, the individual episodes are gripping (especially the opening chapter with its suicide and inquest) and the writing is wonderfully textured. The scene at the end in the slaughterhouse district is amazing. It kept me excited all the way through.
I've never been much of a fan of historical fiction, but I would definitely read more of James McCreet's books because I'd like to see what else he does with this group of characters. Unlike other crime books, there isn't just one detective, but a group of them who compete to solve the crime.
I've never been much of a fan of historical fiction, but I would definitely read more of James McCreet's books because I'd like to see what else he does with this group of characters. Unlike other crime books, there isn't just one detective, but a group of them who compete to solve the crime.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
James McCreet's skill for inserting the occasional slightly more interesting vocabulary makes you smile but doesn't distract from his excellent story-telling. This is a detective novel that opens with an apparently straightforward suicide 'It was not a crow that Alfred White saw taking flight from the railing of the Monument that gloomy London afternoon...', but soon develops into something way more sinister.
The setting is the seedy streets of Victorian London and you can virtually smell the sewers. Inspector Albert Newsome would not be outwitted by Sherlock Holmes and Eusebius Bean is a character worthy of Dickens in both name and nature. I raced to the end of The Vice Society and am now impatiently awaiting the release of McCreet's next novel.
The setting is the seedy streets of Victorian London and you can virtually smell the sewers. Inspector Albert Newsome would not be outwitted by Sherlock Holmes and Eusebius Bean is a character worthy of Dickens in both name and nature. I raced to the end of The Vice Society and am now impatiently awaiting the release of McCreet's next novel.
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book from a recommendation in Waterstones and found it rather tedious from the outset. In fact it took me two attempts to get past the first chapter I was so bored. It was only because I didn't have anything else to read I came back to it.
There are many annoying changes in perspective which lose the pace and excitment which the story could have generated. There are also small but irritating habits such as blanking out words (not sure why?) and advertorial references to previous books and those which the author may subject us to in the future.
Overall - not a bad story, but one told poorly and a style which makes the reader wonder why they bothered.
There are many annoying changes in perspective which lose the pace and excitment which the story could have generated. There are also small but irritating habits such as blanking out words (not sure why?) and advertorial references to previous books and those which the author may subject us to in the future.
Overall - not a bad story, but one told poorly and a style which makes the reader wonder why they bothered.
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