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Nocturne With Gaslamps

"Supernatural shenanigans permeate this satisfyingly suspenseful, literary Victorian crime mystery. "

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The vanishing of a theatre gas-boy. Ghostly goings-on in 1883 London. A mysterious Count. A duo of female detectives set on solving the gas-boy’s disappearance. And so an atmospherically illuminated stage is set for a rich and suspenseful story. And boy does Matthew Francis deliver all that - and more - in Nocturne with Gaslamps.

We first meet Hastings Wimbury through the eyes of Cassie, a stenographer whose keen eye for observational detail will later stand her in good stead. Hastings is an aspiring actor who’s long wanted to play Hamlet, but currently works as a gas-boy in a London theatre, where he operates an enormous gas chandelier, and encounters a Count from Cimmerian, “Land of Darkness”, according to the Count.

Hastings’ disappearance sees his fiancée and Cassie come together to try to find him, as the city falls into darkness, its streets haunted by spirits.

Dancing with intrigue and period charm, Nocturne with Gaslamps is Victorian crime mystery at its most characterful and gloriously gothic.

Joanne Owen

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