Walking in Pimlico
Author(s): Ann Featherstone
To 'walk in Pimlico' colloq. to be handsomely dressed Murray's Dictionary of Slang, Cant and Flash Words and Phrases (1857, 3rd ed.). Stumbling across Bessie Spooner's murdered body, comedian Corney Sage is caught in a tangle of deception and lies. He flees from his concert-room job in London's Whitechapel to a comfortable spa town, and then to a circus and music hall. But try as he might, he cannot elude the killer. And in Corney's world of theatricals, clowns and showmen, where appearances are surface deep and secrets are deadly, any one of them might be the murderer . . . From the drawing rooms of polite society to dingy lodging houses, through shabby pump-room pavilions, fairgrounds and freak shows, Ann Featherstone brilliantly reconstructs nineteenth-century England in this gripping psychological thriller.
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Ann Featherstone teaches and researches Performance History at Manchester University and Royal Holloway, University of London. She has written books and articles about Victorian entertainment, including The Victorian Clown, with Jacky Bratton. Walking in Pimlico is her first novel. WHEREABOUTS Derbyshire
General Fields
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- : John Murray General Publishing Division
- : John Murray Publishers Ltd
- : 01 November 2009
- : 250mm X mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Ann Featherstone
- : Paperback
- : Export/Airside ed
- : 320
- : Crime & Thriller