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Hired to write a biography of J. M. W. Turner, England's great Romantic landscape artist, Walter Hartright discovers a "dark clue" embedded deep within the artist's clever paintings and becomes obsessed with recreating the enigimatic artist's true existence - an endeavor that leads him into a world of depravity and conspiracy, in a brilliant novel that recreates the notorious lives and times of Victorian England.
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The Dark Clue by James Wilson takes us into Victorian England in all its staggering extremes; of poverty and wealth, of slums and stately homes, of public morality and private vice in an unforgettable tale of suspense.
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James Wilson has written plays, TV documentaries (including the award-winning Savagery and the American Indian for the BBC) and a critically-acclaimed history of Native Americans, The Earth Shall Weep. His three previous novels were The Dark Clue, The Bastard Boy and, most recently, The Woman in the Picture, described by Kate Saunders in The Times as 'a multi-layered, deeply absorbing and entertaining novel'.
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- PublisherAtlantic Monthly Pr
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 087113831X
- ISBN 13 9780871138316
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages390
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. First edition, stated first printing. Hard cover binding, 390 pp. The author of the evocative Native American history And the Earth Shall Weep debuts in fiction with this recreation of the Victorian suspense novel, resurrecting characters from Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White -- Walter Hartright and Marian Halcombe -- and sending them on another dramatic and dangerous investigation. Walter is commissioned to write a biography of the great English painter J.M.W. Turner, the creator of haunting romantic landscapes. But he soon finds Turner is a disturbingly elusive figure -- shy, secretive, and the subject of startling rumors and counter-rumors -- and discovers a "dark clue" hidden deep within Turner's brilliant paintings. Obsessed with reconstructing a life that is shrouded in mystery, Walter seeks help from a Dickensian assemblage, including haughty aristocrats, desperate and even criminal characters, and the visionary John Ruskin -- but it is his steadfast and capable sister-in-law Marian who helps him keep his course. Walter uncovers evidence of unspeakable depravity, but can the truth behind Turner's myth be freed from a rapidly expanding web of conspiracy? Author's second book, first novel. New in new dustjacket. Seller Inventory # 008412
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. First edition, stated first printing. Hard cover binding, 390 pp. The author of the evocative Native American history And the Earth Shall Weep debuts in fiction with this recreation of the Victorian suspense novel, resurrecting characters from Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White -- Walter Hartright and Marian Halcombe -- and sending them on another dramatic and dangerous investigation. Walter is commissioned to write a biography of the great English painter J.M.W. Turner, the creator of haunting romantic landscapes. But he soon finds Turner is a disturbingly elusive figure -- shy, secretive, and the subject of startling rumors and counter-rumors -- and discovers a "dark clue" hidden deep within Turner's brilliant paintings. Obsessed with reconstructing a life that is shrouded in mystery, Walter seeks help from a Dickensian assemblage, including haughty aristocrats, desperate and even criminal characters, and the visionary John Ruskin -- but it is his steadfast and capable sister-in-law Marian who helps him keep his course. Walter uncovers evidence of unspeakable depravity, but can the truth behind Turner's myth be freed from a rapidly expanding web of conspiracy? Author's second book, first novel. New in new dustjacket. Seller Inventory # 008413
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