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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2016
On Sale: October 4, 2016
Featuring: Adam Foole; William Pinkerton; Edward Shade
720 pages
ISBN: 0374160538
EAN: 9780374160531
Hardcover
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By Gaslight is a deeply atmospheric, haunting novel about
the unending quest that has shaped a man’s life. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of the most
notorious detective of all time, when he descends into the
underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a new lead on
the fabled con Edward Shade. William’s father died without
ever finding Shade, but William is determined to drag the
thief out of the shadows. Adam Foole is a gentleman without a past, haunted by a love
affair ten years gone. When he receives a letter from his
lost beloved, he returns to London to find her. What he
learns of her fate, and its connection to the man known as
Shade, will force him to confront a grief he thought
long-buried. A fog-enshrouded hunt through sewers, opium dens, drawing
rooms, and séance halls ensues, creating the most unlikely
of bonds: between Pinkerton, the great detective, and Foole,
the one man who may hold the key to finding Edward Shade. Steven Price’s dazzling, riveting By Gaslight moves
from the diamond mines of South Africa to the battlefields
of the Civil War, on a journey into a cityscape of grief,
trust, and its breaking, where what we share can bind us
even against our darker selves.
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