The Night Calls * A SIGNED copy *

PIRIE David:

ISBN 10: 0712670998 / ISBN 13: 9780712670999

Published by London. Century. 2002., 2002

About this Item

First edition, first print. Hardback. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. Slight toning to the closed page edges. SIGNED by the author to the title page, without dedication. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.

Seller Inventory # 37191

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Night Calls * A SIGNED copy *
• Publisher: London. Century. 2002.
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712670998
• ISBN 13: 9780712670999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

While a young medical student at Edinburgh Arthur Conan Doyle famously studied under the remarkable Dr Joseph Bell, who was a pioneer in criminal investigation. Cream chronicles their most frightening and disturbing case, the encounter with the man who was later presented in expurgated form as Moriarty. Beginning with a series of bizarre and outlandish assaults on women in the brothels of Edinburgh, the story moves to the medical facility of the city's university, which is itself being disrupted by the violent struggle for women's educational rights. Here Doyle meets a fellow student, young Elizabeth Scott, who has many enemies, among them a crazed misogynist student called Crawford and the smiling hypocritical patron of the university, Henry Carlisle. Yet slowly Bell begins to realise that the increasingly freakish crimes they are investigating reflect an entirely new and terrifying kind of criminal who is not susceptible to the old methods. Cream takes from the evil heart of old Edinburgh into what Bell calls their 'fight against the future' and to London itself, where Doyle again faces his nemesis with terrifying results.

About the Author

David Pirie was a journalist and film critic before he became a screenwriter. Just a few of his numerous credits are the BAFTA nominated adaptation for the BBC of The Woman in White and his collaboration with Lars Von Trier on the script of the Oscar nominated film Breaking the Waves. David Pirie lives in Somerset.