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Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (published in the United States as The Trial of Elizabeth Cree [1] [2]) is a 1994 novel by the English author Peter Ackroyd. [3] It is a murder mystery framed within a story featuring real historical characters, and set in a recreation of Victorian London. [4]
- Peter Ackroyd
- 1994
A series of gruesome murders attributed to the mysterious 'Limehouse Golem' strikes fear into the heart of the capital. Inspector John Kildare must track down this brutal serial killer in the damp, dark alleyways of riverside London.
A series of gruesome murders attributed to the mysterious 'Limehouse Golem' strikes fear into the heart of the capital. Inspector John Kildare must track down this...
Jan 1, 1994 · Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem = The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, Peter Ackroyd. The Trial of Elizabeth Cree is a 1994 novel by the British author Peter Ackroyd. It is a murder mystery framed within a story featuring real historical characters, and set in a recreation of Victorian London.
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Peter Ackroyd. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994 - Fiction - 281 pages. By the author of First Light. The world of the late-Victorian music hall becomes implicated in a number of more sinister scenes and...
The star of the story, however, is Elizabeth Cree. An abused child, she turns to prostitution for a living. However, she is discovered by Dan Leno and becomes a music hall star and marries the reporter, John Cree. The novel, however, opens with her hanging – for having poisoned her husband.
Jan 1, 1995 · Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem. Paperback – January 1, 1995. by Peter Ackroyd (Author) 4.4 146 ratings. See all formats and editions. The year is 1880, the setting London's poor and dangerous Limehouse district, home to immigrants and criminals.
- Peter Ackroyd
