White Chapel, Scarlet Tracings
Iain Sinclair
208 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0141014849
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Language: English
Publish: April 27, 2004
20th CenturyBritish LiteratureCitiesCrimeFictionHistorical FictionHorrorLiteratureMysteryNovels
A novel about London — its past, its people, its underbelly and its madness.
“In this extraordinary work Sinclair combines a spiritual inquest into the Whitechapel Ripper murders and the dark side of the late Victorian imagination with a posse of seedy book dealers hot on the trail of obscure rarities of that period. These ruined and ruthless dandies appear and disappear through a phantasmagoria interspersed with occult conjurings and reflections on the nature of fiction and history” Guardian