{"product_id":"9781915523020","title":"The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate","description":"By: Adam Roberts     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gothic tale of murder and corruption set in 1840s Victorian London, taking inspiration from our most famous 19th century writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1848, the spectre of revolution stalks London…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The story of the death of Sir Martin Malprelate acquired, from its earliest telling, a phantasmagorical quality, shrouding the violence of the assault in an embellishment of diabolic spectres and uncanny mystery.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStruck down in a Camden street, the railway magnate never lived to see his dream of a line from London to Middlemarch. But who was to blame? An angry mob? Or were the witnesses who swore he was struck by a demonic train, wheels ringing on rails where no rails lay, to be believed? A hated man who many wished dead? An impossible death?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTruly a case for the father of all detectives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom award-winning author Adam Roberts comes a gothic murder mystery like no other; a gripping novel set in the tangled realms of 19th century fiction. In a world woven from the imaginations of Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Arthur Conan Doyle the inexplicable death of a railway magnate opens endless possibilities.","brand":"Datura Books","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46885849366755,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781915523020","price":122.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781915523020.jpg?v=1754265405","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9781915523020","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}