Hawksmoor
Ackroyd, Peter
ISBN 10: 0241116643 ISBN 13: 9780241116647
Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1985
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Synopsis:
In the aftermath of the great fire, eighteenth-century London is a city of extremes. Squalor and superstition vie with elegance and reason as brilliant architect, Nicholas Dyer, is commissioned to build seven new churches. They are to stand as beacons of the Enlightenment – but Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each one. Two hundred and fifty years later, in the same vast metropolis, a series of murders occur on the sites of those same churches. Detective Nicholas Hawksmoor investigates, but the gruesome crimes make no sense to the modern mind...
Review:
“Derek Jacobi romps through the rococo phrasing with such competence that it’s hard to stop listening to this tale”
Independent 15/3/97
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Hawksmoor
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Publication Date: 1985
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new