Above the Dark Tumult: An Adventure

by Hugh Walpole

Paper Book, 1931

Status

Available

Call number

823.912

Publication

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran & Company, inc., 1931.

Description

Huge Walpole's thrilling adventure novel of the 1920s revolves around Piccadily Circus. Richard Gunn is an ex-soldier in trouble after the end of the Great War. Jobless and starving in Piccadilly Circus, he encounters his nemesis, Leroy Pengelly. From this encounter the secrets of their shared past start to unravel... A novel which combines elements of the horror and supernatural - at which Walpole was so skilled - with the puzzle element of the whodunnit - all wrapped up in one unsettling and uncanny whole.

User reviews

LibraryThing member bsnbabe68
The language is quite flowery but surprisingly engaging. Atmosphere is almost another character.

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Physical description

7 p.; 22 cm
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