The Devil's Ribbon (SIGNED,DATED & LINED COPY)

Meredith,D.E.

ISBN 10: 0749012463 / ISBN 13: 9780749012465

Published by Allison & Busby Limited, London, 2013

About this Item

This is a Fine Copy of this Book in a Fine Dust-Jacket.(As New) with no faults.This copy has been Signed and & dated By The Author on the Title Page with two line quote '' Is it the girl who upsets you ''.This a superb unread copy for the collector with crisp white page edges.We have recently acquired a large and wonderful collection of approx 1000 Signed Modern Firsts all of which are in 'As New' Condition and unread,with many Signed and Dated and there are many Signed Limited Editions also.The genre's include Children's Crime Fiction,Fantasy,Science Fiction,Horror and Historical Fiction.The dust-jacket comes well protected in a cover sleeve and the book will be Posted securely in a box and sent with tracked,8vo 335pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [2013].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Devil's Ribbon (SIGNED,DATED & LINED COPY)
• Publisher: Allison & Busby Limited, London
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749012463
• ISBN 13: 9780749012465
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

A trail of beribboned murders. A ticking bomb. A city about to explode.

July, 1858: London swelters under the oppressive heat of the hottest summer on record, and trouble is brewing. Forensic scientist Professor Adolphus Hatton and his trusty assistant, Albert Roumande, have a morgue full of cholera victims. The dead are all Irish, the poorest of London's poor. They came in their thousands ten years ago, forced into the London slums by the terrible famine. Now they live segregated from the rest of Victorian society, a race apart in this heaving city who are at once everywhere and nowhere. But they are a close knit people, and deeply politicised. From the docks in Limehouse to the taverns of St Giles, Fenian groups are talking of violence and of liberation.

When a series of violent murders threatens to cause tensions to boil over, Scotland Yard calls on Hatton and Roumande to help investigate. The seemingly unconnected victims, who hail from all strata of society, are linked by the same macabre calling card: a bright Fenian green ribbon placed strategically about their corpses. While Hatton's search for clues leads him into the spell of a blindingly beautiful woman, a widow of one of the slain, rumblings of a bombing campaign led by an agitator priest and his gang of would-be terrorists build throughout the slums. As the orchestra of veiled motives, divided loyalties, and violent retribution reaches a crescendo, Hatton's skills are tested to the limit. With Roumande, he must race across London to an island with a shipwreck and a secret on a nail-biting race against time in this gripping, elegantly executed Victorian mystery in the tradition of The Dante Club and The Somnambulist.

About the Author

D.E. Meredith has travelled far and wide to some of the remotest places on earth which has fuelled her imagination and continuing lust for travel. After reading English at Cambridge University she became a campaigner for the WWF, and spent ten years working for the environment movement. She has flown over the Arctic in a biplane, skinny-dipped in Siberia, hung out with Inuit and Evenki tribespeople and dodged the Russian mafia in downtown Vladivostok. Meredith later became a spokesperson for the British Red Cross, spending six years travelling through war zones and witnessing humanitarian crises. The experience strongly influenced her crime writing, with its themes of injustice and inequality. She currently lives on the outskirts of London with her husband and two teenage sons. When not writing she runs, bakes cakes and does yoga to relax. www.demeredith.com