Lawless and the Devil of Euston Square (Campbell Lawless Series #1)

by William Sutton

Overview

London, 1859. When a man is killed in a hydraulic burst, novice detective Campbell Lawless stumbles on to the trail of Berwick Skelton: an elusive activist who crossed swords with London's illuminati. The Worms, a gang of urchins, help Lawless investigate the 'Skeleton Thefts', revealing to him the disillusion lurking beneath society. Can he track down the underworld mastermind before he wreaks vengeance on those who ride roughshod over his people?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785650109
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	05/31/2016
Series:	Campbell Lawless , #1
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

William Sutton comes from Dunblane, Scotland. He has written for The Times and the Fortean Times, acted in the longest play in the world, and played cricket for Brazil. He writes for international magazines about language, music and futurology. His plays have been produced on radio and in London fringe theatres. He has performed at events from the Edinburgh Festival to High Down Prison, often wielding a ukulele.

Editorial Reviews

Sutton’s superior plotting, characterization, and pacing makes the pages fly . . . brings Victorian England vividly to life.
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“First-rate Victorian crime fiction.”
—The Herald

“William Sutton's first novel is fine, extravagant and thoroughly enjoyable . . . The action moves with dizzying speed from the highest quarters in the land to the vilest slums and low dives of the teeming city . . . We are told that William Sutton is now at work on another Campbell Lawless mystery. If he can maintain this standard of invention, this mastery of linguistic tone, he is on to a winner.”
—Allan Massie, The Scotsman

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