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The devil's road
- Title
- The devil's road / Jean-Pierre Ohl ; translated by Mike Mitchell.
- Author
- Ohl, Jean-Pierre
- Publication
- Sawtry, Cambs, UK : Dedalus Limited, 2019.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mitchell, Mike (Translator)
- Description
- 345 pages; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "While draining a pond during work for the construction of the Stockton to Darlington Railway, George Stevenson's workers discover a female corpse with a dagger stuck between her ribs - could it be that of Lady Beresford, the French wife of a local baron who disappeared under mysterious circumstances twenty years ago? The identity of the victim is at the heart of Jean-Pierre Ohl's novel, a richly woven tapestry set during the rise of capitalism in England. The Devil's Road has a Dickensian range of characters from the indolent liberal lawyer with a taste for Byron's poems and madeira wine, his imperturbable clerk Snegg, the activist worker Davies and the 'Corporal', a veteran of the Napoleonic wars and demonstrator wounded at the Peterloo Massacre - there is even a role for the young Charles Dickens working in the blacking warehouse."--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Dedalus Europe
- Uniform Title
- Chemin de diable. English
- Dedalus Europe.
- Alternative Title
- Chemin de diable.
- Subjects
- Great Britain
- Railroads > Design and construction > Fiction
- Gothic fiction
- Murder > Investigation > England > Fiction
- 1800-1899
- Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901 > Fiction
- Aristocracy (Social class) > Crimes against > England > Fiction
- Fiction
- Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > England > Fiction
- History
- Historical fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Gothic fiction.
- Note
- "First published in France in 2017"--Title page verso.
- Translated from the French.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-320
- ISBN
- 1910213934
- 9781910213933
- OCLC
- 1061820206
- Author
- Ohl, Jean-Pierre, author.
- Title
- The devil's road / Jean-Pierre Ohl ; translated by Mike Mitchell.
- Publisher
- Sawtry, Cambs, UK : Dedalus Limited, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Dedalus EuropeDedalus Europe.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Added Author
- Mitchell, Mike (Translator), translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-320