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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The bizarre museum of curiosities is the most memorable character in this story. There's enough suspense and enough characterization to carry the reader to the end, but it's the appalling taxidermy and automatons that stick with a person. I wonder if it was based on a real place? ( ) Charles Luke, now a new superintendent in Scotland Yard, is convinced a little London square called Garden Green is linked to a whole series of crimes. His superiors think he is crazy, but Campion takes the idea seriously. The reader knows it is true, because there are alternating sections from the criminal's point of view --something I intensely dislike, but forgive in this case for the setting -- a museum of bizarre Victorian curiosities --and the involvement of an attractive young couple. no reviews | add a review
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In Hide My Eyes, private detective Albert Campion finds himself hunting down a serial killer. A spate of murders leaves him and his friend and colleague Inspector Luke, with only two baffling clues: a left-hand glove and a lizard-skin lettercase. However, a chain of strange events leads them to an odd museum of curiosities hidden in a quiet London neighbourhood where more is going on than meets the eye. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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