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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Peter Ackroyd
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Description for The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Paperback. Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner's office provides the corpses he needs - but they have often died by violent means and are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 296.
Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner's office provides the corpses he needs - but they have often died by violent means and are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse. And, from Limehouse, makes contact with the Doomesday Men - the resurrectionists.
Victor pays better than any hospital for the bodies of the very recently dead. Even so, perfect specimens are hard to come by... until that Thames-side dawn when Victor, waiting, wrapped ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099524137
SKU
9780099524137
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About Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society ... Read more
Reviews for The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
A thrilling concoction ... Ackroyd's telling of the tale is a worthy revival - I found his book so creepy I kept the bedroom light on all night
Daily Express
A brilliant jeu d'esprit. Above all, it stands as a tribute to the power of the human imagination
Daily Telegraph
Ackroyd takes Mary Shelley's hint of ... Read more
Daily Express
A brilliant jeu d'esprit. Above all, it stands as a tribute to the power of the human imagination
Daily Telegraph
Ackroyd takes Mary Shelley's hint of ... Read more