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The Lamplighter

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  • The Lamplighter by Anthony O'Neill
  • The Lamplighter by Anthony O'Neill
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In misty nineteenth-century Edinburgh a headstrong orphan girl is swept off to a hunting lodge and sacrificed to a mysterious figure - the lamplgihter. Twenty years later four men - a religious academic, a colonel, a shady entrepreneur and a retired lighthouse keeper - are brutally murdered. What monster is responsible? Is there a connection between the victims? And what of the anguished young woman who claims to have dreamed the murders in great detail, and repeatedly blames 'the lamplighter'? Leading the official investigation is Carus Groves, an ageing police inspector desperate to crack a sensational case. Leading the unofficial investigation are Thomas McKnight, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, and his young assistant, the Irish cemetery attendant Joseph Canavan. Using reason, intuition, philosophy, and luck, these men race to solve the murders and unveil the source of Evelyn's torment, and in so doing penetrate the very gates of Hell.

Author Biography:

Anthony O'Neill was born in Melbourne and currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. His novels, published to acclaim in 17 languages, include Scheherazade (2001), a revisionist Arabian Nights epic; The Lamplighter (2003), a philosophical tale of the macabre set in 1880s Edinburgh; The Empire of Eternity (2006), a mystery involving Napoleon Bonaparte and the early years of Egyptology; The Unscratchables (2009), a pop-culture satire featuring anthropomorphic dog and cat detectives; The Dark Side (2016), a hardboiled crime novel set in a city on the moon; and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Seek (2017), a sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novella.
Release date NZ
September 1st, 2017
Pages
420
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Publisher
Brio Books
Country of Publication
Australia
Imprint
Xoum
Collection
ISBN-13
9781925143775
Product ID
26820457

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