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Peter Ackroyd
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

Peter Ackroyd
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

1995 | Nakladatelství Folio, spol.s r.o.

NOW AN UNMISSABLE FILM STARRING BILL NIGHY, DOUGLAS BOOTH AND OLIVIA COOKE. 'Mesmerising, macabre and totally brilliant' Daily MailBefore the Ripper, fear had another name.London, 1880. A series of gruesome murders attributed to the mysterious 'Limehouse Golem' strikes fear into the heart of the capital. Inspector John… Kildare must track down this brutal serial killer in the damp, dark alleyways of riverside London. But how does Dan Leno, music hall star extraordinaire, find himself implicated in this crime spree, and what does Elizabeth Cree, on trial for the murder of her husband, have to hide? Peter Ackroyd brings Victorian London to life in all its guts and glory, as we travel from the glamour of the music hall to the slums of the East End, meeting George Gissing and Karl Marx along the way. NOW AN UNMISSABLE FILM STARRING BILL NIGHY, DOUGLAS BOOTH AND OLIVIA COOKE. 'Mesmerising, macabre and totally brilliant' Daily MailBefore the Ripper, fear had another name.London, 1880. A series of gr…uesome murders attributed to the mysterious 'Limehouse Golem' strikes fear into the heart of the capital. Inspector John Kildare must track down this brutal serial killer in the damp, dark alleyways of riverside London. But how does Dan Leno, music hall star extraordinaire, find himself implicated in this crime spree, and what does Elizabeth Cree, on trial for the murder of her husband, have to hide? Peter Ackroyd brings Victorian London to life in all its guts and glory, as we travel from the glamour of the music hall to the slums of the East End, meeting George Gissing and Karl Marx along the way.

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Stav:	Nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	281
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	0749396598
ISBN:	9780749396596
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	17. 3. 2026 11:37
Číslo položky:	1661782

O autorovi

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd je britský spisovatel. Byl vychováván pouze matkou, otec je opustil krátce po Peterově narození. V pěti letech začal Peter číst noviny, v devíti napsal hru o Guy Fawkes. Studoval angličtinu na Clare College v Cambridge a poté na Yale University. Po ukončení studia pracoval v období 1973 až 1982 pro britské noviny The Spectator. V roce 1984 se stal členem Royal Society. V současnosti působí jako hlavní literární kritik Times a rozhlasový komentátor. V tomto článku byl použit překlad textu z článku Peter Ackroyd na německé Wikipedii.

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