crippen
3rd novel crippen published originally in the uk in october 2004
story
July 1910: a gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden.
Chief Inspector Walter Dew od Scotland Yard did not expect the house to be empty.Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar. Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr Hawley Crippen. No one would have thought the quiet, unassuming Dr Crippen capable of murder, yet the doctor and his mistress have disappeared from London, and now a full-scale hunt forthem has begun.
Across the Channel in Antwerp, the SS Montrose, has just set off on its two-week voyage to North America. Slipping in among the first-class passengers is a Mr John Robinson, accompanied by his teenage son, Edmund. The pair may be hoping for a quiet, private voyage, but in the close confines of a luxury ocean liner, anonymity is rare. And with others aboard looking for romance, or violence, or escape from their past in Europe, it will take more than just luck for the Robinsons to survive the voyage unnoticed.
editions
UK Editions:
Penguin, Paperback, Oct 2004, ISBN 0141018550, 494 pp, 6.99 stg
BCA, Hardback, Aug 2004, ISBN CN129577, 494 pp, 9.99 stg
USA Editions:
St Martin's Press / Thomas Dunne Books, Hardback, Mar 2006, ISBN 0312343582, 352 pp, $24.95
St Martin's Press / Griffin, Paperback, Jan 2007, ISBN 0312343590, 352 pp, $13.95
Russia Edition:
Eksmo, Hardback, Nov 2006, ISBN 5699192204, 512 pp "КРИППЕН"
reviews
"Boyne
has the ability to create memorable characters, and to unfold their various
stories in a tightly controlled narrative that shifts backwards and forwards,
dolling out enough information to keep readers on the edge of their metaphorical
seats."
- The Irish Times
"This
is a novel to make one think deeply...the spell it casts and the story it tells
are too compelling to ruminate on anything else other than its excellence."
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Crippen
has confirmed him as one of the best and original of the new generation of Irish
writers."
- The Irish
Examiner
"Supremely
readable, always suspenseful, sometimes laugh-out loud funny... Boyne provides
plenty of thrills, chills, ironies and surprises."
- Washington Post
"Had Charles Dickens been around to turn his talents to fictionalising the
classic Crippen murder case, the result might well have been close to this
superb, multifaceted novel... Boyne brings all the characters in this drama to
life, skilfully shifting perspectives... (he) is to be commended for his ability
to alternate between Wodehousian humour and Edwardian noir."
- Publishers Weekly