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Sunday, 16 June 2013

A Most Dangerous Woman – Lee Jackson

‘It was said that she had the good manners of a respectable upper servant but was far too young to have been pensioned; that she spoke as if she had received an education, but knew the coasters’ slang as if she were born-and-bred to it; and that she not only had no husband – which was a commonplace on Leather Lane – but seemed never to have possessed one.’ When the mysterious Sarah Tanner opens her Dining and Coffee Rooms upon the corner of Leather Lane and Liquor pond Street, her arrival amongst the poor market-traders is a nine-days’ wonder. Few doubt that she has a ‘past’; but no-one can possibly predict how it will return to haunt her. When an old friend is brutally murdered by the unlikeliest of assailants, Sarah Tanner is the only witness. Unable to turn to the police, she reluctantly finds herself drawn back into the dark underworld of the Victorian metropolis. Assisted by unlikely friends, dogged by the criminal machinations of ‘the greatest gamester, felon, villain, swindler, and scoundrel in London’, she must unravel a web of treachery and deceit, that takes her from the gaming hells of Regent Street to the suburban heights of Upper Holloway; from the slums of St. Giles to the fast-flowing waters of the Thames. Relying on her wits, trading on her past, Sarah Tanner risks gambling her own life upon a desperate quest for justice and vengeance. Lee Jackson returns with a new “Lady detective,” the first of a gripping series set in 1850s London.
Unabridged.
Read by Phyllida Nash.

The Last Pleasure Garden – Lee Jackson

A sinister figure stalks the gas-lit groves of Cremorne Gardens, the last pleasure-ground on the banks of the Thames. His weapon, a sharp pair of scissors. His victims, young women in the first bloom of youth. His crime – merely to remove a lock of their hair. Inspector Decimus Webb of Scotland Yard suspects a harmless lunatic is at large. But when morbid obsession turns to murder, even Webb’s loyal sergeant begins to doubt his judgement. As the press and his superiors clamour for answers, Webb’s investigations lead him to Rose Perfitt, aspiring debutante and daughter of a respectable stock-broker. Will she fall prey to ‘The Cutter’ or does a worse fate beckon? One thing is certain – only Decimus Webb can save her. Lee Jackson’s third Inspector Webb novel takes the reader into the forgotten world of the Victorian pleasure-garden, in a gripping mystery of garish gas-light and dark secrets.
Unabridged.
Read by Joe Dunlop.

A Metropolitan Murder – Lee Jackson

Inspector Decimus Webb’s investigation of the murder of a young woman, abandoned in a second-class carriage, leads him through the slums of Victorian London to a home for “fallen women” and to Clara White. He must then decide whether she is merely a victim of circumstances, or a prime suspect.
Unabridged.
Read by Joe Dunlop.

Sunday, 9 June 2013

The Mesmerist’s Apprentice – Lee Jackson

Jackson tells a truly engrossing tale while, again, brilliantly evoking life in Victorian London
When the enigmatic Sarah Tanner re-opens her Dining and Coffee Rooms soon after a disastrous fire, the gossips of Leather Lane grudgingly admit she has ‘the luck of the devil’. Yet when a local butcher is falsely accused of a heinous offence, selling horse-meat, it seems her luck has run out… Drawn into an ever more dangerous series of confrontations with a gang of youths who seem determined to put an innocent man out of business, Sarah Tanner’s own livelihood looks set for ruin into the bargain.
Unabridged.
Read by Phyllida Nash.

Sunday, 10 March 2013

Sleep Disorder – Edward Lee & Jack Ketchum

For a very long time, Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee have followed their separate paths of line-crossing, gut-wrenching, no holds-barred storytelling. Now, those roads have drawn close and merged for a collection of five collaborative stories guaranteed to shock, amuse, disgust, and bring lovers of extreme fiction back for more. Along with the five stories, the authors have each included the first draft of one of their stories, showing the rough-base that becomes the foundation for their fiction, and giving listeners a good chance at separating their voices in the collaborations.
Unabridged.
Read by John Lee.