The Dark Clue

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Fiction
A luscious Victorian thriller Sends two characters from [Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White] on a brilliant literary mission We are soon exposed to the dark heart of a city that never loses its fascination."
—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
J.M.W. Turner was one of the boldest and most elusive geniuses of his age. When Walter Hartright and his sister-in-law Marian are charged to write a biography of the great Romantic landscape artist, their attempt to draw his life out of the shadows sends them tripping across Victorian London in all of its staggering extremes. Together they encounter a kaleidoscopic array of the age's fantastic characters, from the hardened street children of the city's poorest quarters, to the tawdiy women of the dockside brothels, to the celebrated visionary, John Ruskin. And yet the more Walter and Marian discover of Turner—the depraved company he kept, the dark places he frequented, his mysterious link to an unspeakable act—the... Tovább

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Fiction
A luscious Victorian thriller Sends two characters from [Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White] on a brilliant literary mission We are soon exposed to the dark heart of a city that never loses its fascination."
—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
J.M.W. Turner was one of the boldest and most elusive geniuses of his age. When Walter Hartright and his sister-in-law Marian are charged to write a biography of the great Romantic landscape artist, their attempt to draw his life out of the shadows sends them tripping across Victorian London in all of its staggering extremes. Together they encounter a kaleidoscopic array of the age's fantastic characters, from the hardened street children of the city's poorest quarters, to the tawdiy women of the dockside brothels, to the celebrated visionary, John Ruskin. And yet the more Walter and Marian discover of Turner—the depraved company he kept, the dark places he frequented, his mysterious link to an unspeakable act—the more his true life becomes vexingly out of reach. Can Walter and Marian untangle fact from a rapidly expanding web of conspiracy? Will the price of truth be too costly to pay?
' [A] marvelous period-piece mystery It's a compelling vision of the mean streets of London____Wilson's vivid evocations of Turner's paintings—the brooding colors and dark clues—will haunt the reader." —Tampa Tribune
'Irresistibly flavorful Wilson keeps a firm grip on our attention— [He] evokes the place and time (London and environs, in the 1850s) in which his tale is set with enviable success____For those of us seeking a dark tangled tale for an agreeably stormy night, The Dark Clue just might be the solution."
—Bruce Allen, The Boston Globe
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James Wilson is the author of The Earth Shall Weep and numerous plays, articles, and radio and television documentaries. Vissza