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| Description | Egg-stealing in the Scottish highlands, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens_ Captivating and ingenious, full of suspense and teeming with life, Kept is a Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get what they want.August 1863.Henry Ireland, a failed landowner, dies unexpectedly in a riding accident, leaving a highly-strung young widow. Not far away lives Ireland_s friend James Dixey, a celebrated naturalist who collects strange trophies, a stuffed bear, a pet mouse, and a wolf that he keeps caged in the grounds of his decaying house, lost in the fog on the edge of the fens.The poachers, Dewar and Dunbar, with their cargo of pilfered eggs; Esther the observant kitchen maid, pining to be re-united with her vanished admirer; the ancient lawyer Mr Crabbe made careless by snobbery; John Carstairs, in search of his cousin, the elusive widow; an enigmatic debt-collector, busily plotting an audacious robbery; various low-life henchmen; and Captain McTurk of Scotland Yard, patiently investigating the circumstances of the Mr Ireland_s death and many other things besides_ all are drawn into a net of intrigue with wide and sinister implications.Ranging from the lochsides of Scotland to the slums of Clerkenwell, and from the gentlemen_s clubs of St James_s to the Yukon wilds, Kept is a gorgeously intricate novel about the urge to possess, at once a gripping investigation of some of the secret chambers of the human heart and a dazzling re-invention of Victorian life and passions. | | Release Date | 2006 | | Author | David John Taylor | | Format | Dimensions 16.2x24.0x4.0 cm
431 pages
book | | Publisher | Chatto & Windus | | Subject(s) | Fiction / General
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
Fiction / Crime
Fiction / City Life |
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