The lamplighter : a novel / Anthony O'Neill.
By: O'Neill, Anthony.
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BookPublisher: New York : Scribner, c2003Description: 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0743243498; 0743464273 (pbk.).Subject(s): Philosophy teachers -- Fiction | Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction | Serial murders -- Fiction | Teachers -- Fiction | Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction | Serial murders -- Fiction | Historical fiction | Mystery fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Mystery fiction.DDC classification: 813/.6 Summary: Plodding police inspector Carus Groves teams up with retired professor Thomas McKnight and his gravedigger assistant to investigate when a series of grisly murders strikes Edinburgh in the 1880s, shortly after the return of Evelyn Todd, a young woman who had been expelled from the Fountainbridge Institute for Destitute Girls years earlier for weaving fantastic stories about a cheerful lamplighter.
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Plodding police inspector Carus Groves teams up with retired professor Thomas McKnight and his gravedigger assistant to investigate when a series of grisly murders strikes Edinburgh in the 1880s, shortly after the return of Evelyn Todd, a young woman who had been expelled from the Fountainbridge Institute for Destitute Girls years earlier for weaving fantastic stories about a cheerful lamplighter.
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