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The devil's road / Jean-Pierre Ohl ; translated by Mike Mitchell.
Van Pelt Library PQ2715.H54 C4613 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ohl, Jean-Pierre, author.
- Series:
- Dedalus Europe
- Standardized Title:
- Chemin de diable. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Murder--England--Investigation--Fiction.
- Murder.
- Aristocracy (Social class).
- Cold cases (Criminal investigation).
- England.
- Cold cases (Criminal investigation)--England--Fiction.
- Aristocracy (Social class)--Crimes against--England--Fiction.
- Railroads--Design and construction--Fiction.
- Railroads.
- Railroads--Design and construction.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Fiction.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Gothic fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 345 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Sawtry, Cambs, UK : Dedalus Limited, 2019.
- Summary:
- "While draining a pond during work for the construction of the Stockton to Darlington Railway, George Stevenson's workers discover a female corpse with a dagger stuck between her ribs - could it be that of Lady Beresford, the French wife of a local baron who disappeared under mysterious circumstances twenty years ago? The identity of the victim is at the heart of Jean-Pierre Ohl's novel, a richly woven tapestry set during the rise of capitalism in England. The Devil's Road has a Dickensian range of characters from the indolent liberal lawyer with a taste for Byron's poems and madeira wine, his imperturbable clerk Snegg, the activist worker Davies and the 'Corporal', a veteran of the Napoleonic wars and demonstrator wounded at the Peterloo Massacre - there is even a role for the young Charles Dickens working in the blacking warehouse."--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "First published in France in 2017"--Title page verso.
- Translated from the French.
- ISBN:
- 1910213934
- 9781910213933
- OCLC:
- 1061820206
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