Above the Dark Circus (Crime Classic Reprint S.) (original 1931; edition 1931)

by Hugh Walpole (Author)

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"Dick Gunn, fingering his last half-crown decides to spend it on a haircut. As he waits, in walks Leroy Pattison Pengelly, a ghost from his past, the link with everything that should have been his. As Dick pursues Pengelly up the staircase, he meets again the people he most loved and admired before the war and is drawn headlong into thier peculiar nightmare."--Publisher description.… (more)

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Title:	Above the Dark Circus (Crime Classic Reprint S.)
Authors:	Hugh Walpole (Author)
Info:	Constable (1985), Edition: New edition, 280 pages
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Above the Dark Circus by Hugh Walpole (1931)

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Above the Dark Circus

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1931

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Richard Gunn

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Piccadilly Circus, London, England, UK

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Epigraph

This form, this face, this life
Living to live in a world of time beyond me: let me
Resign my life for this life, my speech for that unspoken,
The awakened lips parted, the hope, the new ships.
T. S. Eliot

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For my friend Walter Briscoe, City Librarian of Nottingham

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I am aware, I fancy, of most of the dangers of narrative in the first person, but it appears to me that there is no other possible method for this particular story.

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"Dick Gunn, fingering his last half-crown decides to spend it on a haircut. As he waits, in walks Leroy Pattison Pengelly, a ghost from his past, the link with everything that should have been his. As Dick pursues Pengelly up the staircase, he meets again the people he most loved and admired before the war and is drawn headlong into thier peculiar nightmare."--Publisher description.

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