Inspector Abberline and the Just King

by Simon Clark

Overview

1890: A killer stalks the Isle of Faxfleet—a tiny, independent Yorkshire kingdom inhabited by eccentrics and Victorian dropouts, and ruled by King Ludwig, a man obsessed with creating an academy of geniuses. When an academy member is killed by an arrow, Scotland Yard dispatches Inspector Abberline, the world-famous "Ripper Detective," and his assistant Thomas Lloyd. The case is as fascinating as it is perplexing, and leads to a series of decidedly peculiar crimes and a thrilling climax that plunges both men into danger.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719816567
Publisher:	Hale, Robert Limited
Publication date:	05/01/2016
Series:	Inspector Abberline , #2
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Simon Clark is a horror writer who has won the British Fantasy Society Award and been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and World Fantasy Award.

Editorial Reviews

05/16/2016
Set in 1890, Clark’s intriguing second whodunit for his fictionalized version of real-life Scotland Yarder Frederick Abberline (after 2015’s Inspector Abberline and the Gods of Rome) finds the detective’s Watsonian sidekick, reporter Thomas Lloyd, deciding to give up chronicling his cases after narrowly escaping drowning while aiding Abberline. Lloyd reconsiders after he’s accosted by an unidentified elderly gentleman, who tells him that his coverage has been a valuable tool to rebut public perceptions that the police are corrupt; the stranger then presents him with a gold pin that he’s to keep secret and a letter from the prime minister himself. This is just the prologue to another odd murder case, which takes Abberline to the Kingdom of Faxfleet, an independent nation consisting of an island in the River Humber. One of the kingdom’s residents, Benedict Feasby, was shot to death with an arrow after encountering a bizarre stuffed creature, Sir Terror, in a tree. Unfortunately, neither lead has a memorable personality, despite Clark’s success elsewhere with Sherlockian pastiche. (July)

Publishers Weekly

"Merchant of menace."  —Daily Mirror


"Edgar Allan Poe for the twenty-first century."  —SFX Magazine


"intriguing second whodunit."  —Publishers Weekly, May 16, 2016 issue

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