'This is a book begun, but not finished. I could not finish it. Many
times I have come close to destroying it, thinking I should have no
rest while it remained to reproach me. I could not bring myself to do
it. I have therefore given instructions that it should be sealed in a
box, which is to remain unopened until I, my wife Laura, our sister
Marion Halcombe, and all our children are dead.'
So begins James Wilson's brilliant imaginative recreation of the
Victorian sensation novel as the characters from Wilkie Collins's THE
WOMAN IN WHITE - Walter Hartright and Marion Halcombe - are involved
in another dramatic and dangerous conspiracy. Walter is commissioned
to write a biography of the greatest of English painters, JMW Turner,
whose life was shrouded in mystery. His researches take him to the
dark secret at the centre of Turner's work and involve him and Marion
in confronting crimes and human degradation that threaten their sanity
and their lives.
THE DARK CLUE takes us into Victorian England in all its staggering
extremes; of poverty and wealth, of slums and stately homes, of public
morality and private vice in an unforgettable tale of suspense.
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ISBN
9780571307159
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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