The Devil's Road EPUB
by Jean-Pierre Ohl
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While draining a pond during work for the construction of the Stockton to Darlington Railway George Stephenson's workers discover a female corpse with a dagger stuck between her ribs-could it be that of Lady Beresford, the French wife of a local baron who disappeared under mysterious circumstances twenty years ago?
The identity of the victim is at the heart of Jean-Pierre Ohl's novel, a richly woven tapestry set during the rise of capitalism in England. The Devil's Road has a Dickensian range of characters from the indolent liberal lawyer Bailey, with a taste for Byron's poems and madeira wine, his imperturbable clerk Snegg, the activist worker Davies and the 'Corporal', a veteran of the Napoleonic wars and demonstrator wounded at the Peterloo Massacre—there is even a role for the young Charles Dickens working in the blacking warehouse.
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- Publisher:DEDALUS
- Publication Date:18/09/2019
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- ISBN:9781912868131
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:DEDALUS
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- ISBN:9781912868131