Hawksmoor - Hardcover

Ackroyd, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060155035 ISBN 13: 9780060155032

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1985

Synopsis

Integrating portraits of an eighteenth-century architect and a modern London police inspector, this novel focuses on two men, both undergoing a process of disintegration and both involved in a series of similar murders

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Ackroyd is a well known writer and historian. He has been the literary editor of The Spectator and chief book reviewer for the The Times, as well as writing several highly acclaimed books including a biography of Dickens and London: The Biography. He resides in London and his most recent highly acclaimed work is Thames: Sacred River.

From AudioFile:

This is a moody tale of ancient superstition and the modern havoc it spawns. There's no one better to read it than Sir Derek Jacobi, whose sepulchral voice seems to echo from the story's eighteenth-century beginning. Two hundred and fifty years ago, architect Nicholas Dyer designed devilry into the churches he built after the great fire of London. Now those churches are the sites of macabre murders; it's up to CID Detective Nicholas Hawksmoor to resolve this spooky and involving tale of evil-once-done. A.C.S. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0060155035
• ISBN 13: 9780060155032
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 217