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'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind ...
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Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
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- Released
- 1985
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- Title
- Hawksmoor
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peter Ackroyd
- Publisher
- Penguin books
- Released
- 1985
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0140171134
- ISBN13
- 9780140171136
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Horror, Detective Fiction, England, Great Britain, English Literature, London, Gothic, 18th century, Gothic Horror
- First published
- 1985
- Original title
- Hawksmoor
- Rating
- 3.5 out of 5
- Description
- 'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind ...