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James Kidd

By Gaslight 
by Steven Price
Oneworld
Let’s start 2017 as we mean to go on: with lots of reading. Steven Price’s By Gaslightmay clock in at a wrist-bending 752 pages but never fear: this is one of those novels that races by in the reading. Our setting is that best of times and places: London, 1885. Almost inevitably there is a real pea-souper enveloping city and souls. William Pinkerton, whose father all but invented the job that Sherlock Holmes made world famous, travels to London cool-on-the-heels of Edward Shade, whose last name all but consigns him to a life as a master criminal. William meets Adam Foole (another pointed name), who is searching for his missing girlfriend but hints at new dimensions to William’s famous father. Price’s other job, as a poet, lends his prose sensual immediacy: he is alert to sounds, touch and, above all, light. He also knows his Victorian novels, weaving mysteries like a Wilkie Collins who has binged on Sherlock box sets. Terrific.


By Gaslight is superior crime confection, written in lyrical prose of sensual immediacy

Steven Price shows his knowledge of the Victorian novel in his fog-drenched and sensual crime thriller

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.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Steven Price shows his knowledge of the Victorian novel in his fog-drenched and sensual crime thriller

Steven Price shows his knowledge of the Victorian novel in his fog-drenched and sensual crime thriller