Lawless and the Devil of Euston Square (Campbell Lawless Series #1)

by William Sutton

Overview

It is 1859, and novice detective Campbell Lawless has just arrived in London. He is summoned to the scene of a deadly act of sabotage at Euston Station by the illustrious Inspector Wardle. Wardle believes that the man found dead amidst his handiwork is the culprit, but Lawless is not so sure. So begins his hunt for elusive revolutionary Berwick Skelton. Aided by a gang of street urchins and a vivacious librarian, Lawless must capture his underworld nemesis before Skelton unleashes his final vengeance…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785650093
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	05/31/2016
Series:	Campbell Lawless Series , #1
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	4.30(w) x 6.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

William Sutton comes from Dunblane, Scotland. He has written for The Times and the Fortean Times, acted in the longest play in the world, and played cricket for Brazil. He writes for international magazines about language, music and futurology. His plays have been produced on radio and in London fringe theatres. He has performed at events from the Edinburgh Festival to High Down Prison, often wielding a ukulele.

Editorial Reviews

★ 11/14/2016
Sutton’s superior plotting, characterization, and pacing make the pages fly by in this epic series kickoff that spans three years. In 1859, Campbell Lawless, who previously worked as an apprentice to his watchmaker father, joins the London police and soon finds his expertise at watch repair, rather than his newly acquired deductive skills, in demand. That could change after a water-powered crane, known as a hydraulic devil, explodes at the under-construction Euston railway station, and Lawless is asked to examine the future terminal’s gigantic clock. He finds most of the timepiece’s workings missing and a corpse. The mystery deepens for the novice copper when the coroner tells him that the supposed victim of the explosion has been dead for days. Meanwhile, Lawless’s superior seems eager to curtail the investigation. Along the way to the ultimate reveal, Sutton brings Victorian England vividly to life, from the poor forced to eke out a living in the sewers to the era’s corrupt power brokers. (May)This review has been updated to fix a typo.

Publishers Weekly

"Sutton’s superior plotting, characterization, and pacing makes the pages fly... brings Victorian England vividly to life"— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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