{"product_id":"the-death-of-sir-martin-malprelate-isbn-9781915523020","title":"The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gothic tale of murder and corruption set in 1840s Victorian London, taking inspiration from our most famous 19th century writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1848, the spectre of revolution stalks London…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The story of the death of Sir Martin Malprelate acquired, from its earliest telling, a phantasmagorical quality, shrouding the violence of the assault in an embellishment of diabolic spectres and uncanny mystery.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStruck down in a Camden street, the railway magnate never lived to see his dream of a line from London to Middlemarch. But who was to blame? An angry mob? Or were the witnesses who swore he was struck by a demonic train, wheels ringing on rails where no rails lay, to be believed? A hated man who many wished dead? An impossible death?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTruly a case for the father of all detectives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom award-winning author Adam Roberts comes a gothic murder mystery like no other; a gripping novel set in the tangled realms of 19th century fiction. In a world woven from the imaginations of Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Arthur Conan Doyle the inexplicable death of a railway magnate opens endless possibilities.ADAM ROBERTS is Professor of 19th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, London University. He is a leading authority on the works of Charles Dickens and has also published numerous books and academic studies on, amongst others, Browning, Tennyson, Wells, Walter Scott and Coleridge.  He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Vice President of the H.G. Wells Society and the author of more than 20 critically acclaimed SF novels and a number of non-fiction books on the genre. He lives to the West of London with his wife and two children.","brand":"Datura Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305137885413,"sku":"NP9781915523020","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781915523020.jpg?v=1767738965","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-death-of-sir-martin-malprelate-isbn-9781915523020","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}