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by Lee Jackson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd (1 Feb 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099469243
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099469247
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 79,772 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A sinister figure stalks the gas-lit groves of Cremorne Gardens, the last pleasure-ground on the banks of the Thames. His weapon, a sharp pair of scissors. His victims, young women in the first bloom of youth. His crime - merely to remove a lock of their hair. Inspector Decimus Webb of Scotland Yard suspects a harmless lunatic is at large. But when morbid obsession turns to murder, even Webb's loyal sergeant begins to doubt his judgement. As the press and his superiors clamour for answers, Webb's investigations lead him to Rose Perfitt, aspiring debutante and daughter of a respectable stock-broker. Will she fall prey to 'The Cutter' or does a worse fate beckon? One thing is certain - only Decimus Webb can save her. Lee Jackson's third Inspector Webb novel takes the reader into the forgotten world of the Victorian pleasure-garden, in a gripping mystery of garish gas-light and dark secrets.


About the Author

LEE JACKSON lives in London with his partner Joanne. His first book, London Dust, was shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award. He is fascinated by the social history of Victorian London and spends much of his time on the ongoing development of his website www.victorianlondon.org

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Victorian London comes alive...., 24 Aug 2008
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.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A bit too like a Victorian Melodrama., 10 Jun 2009
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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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Atmospheric but unsatisfying, 12 Sep 2008
By Roman Clodia (London) - See all my reviews
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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.
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