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Synopsis
Book by Thomas, Donald
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About the Author
Donald Thomas was born in Somerset and educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and Balliol College, Oxford. He holds a personal chair in the University of Wales, Cardiff, now Cardiff University. His numerous crime novels include two collections of Sherlock Holmes stories and a hugely successful historical detective series written under the pen name Francis Selwyn and featuring Sergeant Verity of Scotland Yard, as well as gritty police procedurals written under the name of Richard Dacre. He is also the author of seven biographies and a number of other non-fiction works, and won the Gregory Prize for his poems, Points of Contact. He lives in Bath with his wife.
From Publishers Weekly
In Jekyll, Alias Hyde, Thomas's invented Inspector Swain failed to enhance Stevenson's classic. Swain's appearance here also disappoints. The truth in this tale about a poisoner who roamed London's Lambeth area in 1891-92, giving "medicine" to prostitutes and dooming them to slow, agonizing deaths, is more interesting than the fiction. Based on well-researched historic records, Thomas's version of the madman hoping to rival Jack the Ripper is, unfortunately, flawed by its very accuracy. The information identifies him early on, leaving few surprises for the reader. Also distracting are pages sagging with linguistic excesses, describing the progress of Swain's romance with his landlady's daughter as she grows from a child to a nubile teenager.
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