The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder

The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder

London, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. Algernon Charles Swinburne - unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade, for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin! They stand at a crossroads in their lives and are caught in the epicenter of an empire torn by conflicting forces: Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier, and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labor; Libertines oppose repressive laws and demand a society based on beauty and creativity; while the Rakes push the boundaries of human behavior to the limits with magic, drugs, and anarchy. The two men are sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when Lord Palmerston commissions Burton to investigate assaults on young women committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack, and to find out why werewolves are terrorizing London's East End. Their investigations lead them to one of the defining events of the age, and the terrifying possibility that the world they inhabit shouldn't exist at all!

Mark Hodder is the author of The Curious Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, which won the Philip K. Davis Award for Best Novel. The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man, which won the 2010 Dick Prize, is a sequel to The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man. He built the Blakiana website (http: //www.sextonblake.co.uk) to commemorate, document, and renew Sexton Blake, the most written-about fictional detective in English publication history. Mark is a former BBC writer, editor, journalist, and Web producer who has worked in both new and conventional media. He spent most of his professional life in London until 2008, when he moved to Valencia, Spain, to de-stress and create novels. He has a cultural studies degree and enjoys British history (1850 to 1950 in particular), delicious food, cutting-edge gadgets, cult television (ITC forever! ), Tom Waits, and a wide range of curiosities.

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ISBN 13	9781616142407
ISBN 10	1616142405
Title	The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
Author	Mark Hodder
Series	Burton And Swinburne Adventure Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pyr
Year published	2010-09-01
Number of pages	373
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