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010 $a 2016945301
020 $a9780316307901 (hbk.) :$cNT$945
050 00$aPR9199.3.M65$bR85 2016b
082 04$a813.54$222
100 1 $aMorrell, David,$d1943-$eauthor.
245 10$aRuler of the night /$cDavid Morrell.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bMulholland Books/Little, Brown, and Company,$c2016.
300 $a342 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aSequel to: Inspector of the dead.
520 $aOpium addict Thomas De Quincey and his irrepressible daughter Emily investigate the strangling of a lawyer in what is the first murder on an English train, and they uncover a dangerous secret that reaches the highest levels of British society.
520 $a1855. The railway has irrevocably altered English society: a whole day's journey can now be covered in a matter of hours. This brings freedom-- and danger. When a gentleman is stabbed to death in a locked first-class passenger compartment, the crime paralyzes London. In the next compartment, Thomas De Quincey and his daughter, Emily, discover the homicide in a most gruesome manner. They join forces with their allies in Scotland Yard, Detective Ryan and his partner-in-training, Becker, to pursue the killer. Ultimately, De Quincey must confront two ruthless adversaries: this terrifying enemy, and his own opium addiction which endangers his life and his tormented soul.
600 10$aDe Quincey, Thomas,$d1785-1859$vFiction.
650 0$aFathers and daughters$vFiction.
650 0$aMurder$xInvestigation$vFiction.
651 0$aLondon (England)$xSocial life and customs$y19th century$xFiction.