By Gaslight

✍ Scribed by Price, Steven

• Book ID: 108794329
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 590 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A magnificent literary historical-suspense novel in the tradition of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries , Patrick DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers , and Michael Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White , By Gaslight is destined to be one of the most acclaimed and talked-about books of the year.
London, 1885. In a city of fog and darkness, the notorious thief Edward Shade exists only as a ghost, a fabled con, a thief of other men's futures -- a man of smoke. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of a brutal detective, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a new lead. His father died without ever tracing Shade; William, still reeling from his loss, is determined to drag the thief out of the shadows. Adam Foole is a gentleman without a past, haunted by a love affair ten years gone. When he receives a letter from his lost beloved, he returns to London in search of her; what he learns of her fate, and its...