July 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop
Crescent, Camden.
Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the
house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar.
Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former
music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have
thought the quiet, unassuming Dr. Crippen capable of murder, yet
the doctor and his mistress have disappeared from London, and now a
full-scale hunt for them has begun.
Across the Channel in Antwerp, the S.S. "Montrose "has just set off
on its two-week voyage to North America. Slipping in among the
first-class passengers is a Mr. John Robinson, accompanied by his
teenage son, Edmund. The pair may be hoping for a quiet, private
voyage, but in the close confines of a luxury ocean liner,
anonymity is rare. And with others aboard looking for romance, or
violence, or escape from their past in Europe, it will take more
than just luck for the Robinsons to survive the voyage unnoticed.
An accomplished, intricately plotted novel, "Crippen "brilliantly
reimagines the amazing escape attempt of one of history's most
notorious killers and marks the outstanding American debut of one
of Ireland's best young novelists. John Boyne was born in Dublin,
Ireland. He studied English literature at Trinity College, Dublin,
and was a student in creative writing at the University of East
Anglia, where he was awarded the Curtis Brown Prize. He began
publishing short stories in his early twenties and was shortlisted
for a Hennessy Literary Award. He is also the author of the
children's novel "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas," which has been
shortlisted for the Ottakar's Children's Book Prize. He has taught
creative writing at the Irish Writer's Centre and at the University
of East Anglia, where he was awarded the Writing Fellowship for
2005; in the same year, Ireland's "Sunday Business Post "named him
one of the forty people under forty in Ireland "likely to be the
movers and shakers who will define the country's culture, politics,
style and economics in 2005 and beyond." "Crippen "was nominated
for the "Sunday Independent "Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the
Year Award. Boyne's work has been translated into fourteen
languages. He lives with his partner in Dublin. July 1910: A
gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden.
Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the
house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar.
Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former
music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have
thought the quiet, unassuming Dr. Crippen capable of murder, yet
the doctor and his mistress have disappeared from London, and now a
full-scale hunt for them has begun.
Across the Channel in Antwerp, the S.S. "Montrose "has just set off
on its two-week voyage to North America. Slipping in among the
first-class passengers is a Mr. John Robinson, accompanied by his
teenage son, Edmund. The pair may be hoping for a quiet, private
voyage, but in the close confines of a luxury ocean liner,
anonymity is rare. And with others aboard looking for romance, or
violence, or escape from their past in Europe, it will take more
than just luck for the Robinsons to survive the voyage unnoticed.
An accomplished, intricately plotted novel, "Crippen "brilliantly
reimagines the amazing escape attempt of one of history's most
notorious killers and marks the outstanding American debut of one
of Ireland's best young novelists.
General
Imprint: |
Black Swan
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2011 |
First published: |
September 2011 |
Authors: |
John Boyne
|
Dimensions: |
198 x 128 x 32mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
Pages: |
505 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-552-77743-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Crime & mystery >
General
|
LSN: |
0-552-77743-9 |
Barcode: |
9780552777438 |
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