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Hawksmoor
Peter Ackroyd
publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1985



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Eighteenth- and 20th-century London merge as Nicholas Hawksmoor, C.I.D., investigates a series of murders whose only connection is locale 18th-century churches constructed by Nicholas Dyer.


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BOOKS BY PETER ACKROYD:

The Great Fire of London
1982
Ackroyd's first novel, The Great Fire of London, is a reworking of Dickens' Little Dorrit.
Hawksmoor
1985
Eighteenth- and 20th-century London merge as Nicholas Hawksmoor, C.I.D., investigates a series of murders whose only connection is locale 18th-century churches constructed by Nicholas Dyer.
WHAT TO READ AFTER HAWKSMOOR?

TOMBOLA
Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco, 1988

Chatterton
1987
The plot centers around the discovery by Charles Wychwood, an aspiring poet, of an old manuscript that he believes to have been written by Thomas Chatterton, the 18th-century English poet who committed suicide at 18. Or did he?
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
1994
The world of the late-Victorian music hall becomes implicated in a number of more sinister scenes and episodes.
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