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“Entirely wonderful . . . chock-full of revenge, romance, duplicity, concealed identities and murder most frequent.”— Washington Post Building on his haunting, superbly written debut, The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox returns to a story of murder, love, and revenge in Victorian England. ... read more

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I wish you, first of all, t imagine that you are standing beside me, peeping over the rail of an arched and curtained gallery, set - like the stage of some aerial theatre - high above a long and imposing room.

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  1. Michael Cox (Author)
 

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  • The Woman in White
  • The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes

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