The Angel of Highgate
Author | : Vaughn Entwistle |
Publisher | : Titan Books (US, CA) |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781783295357 |
ISBN-13 | : 178329535X |
Rating | : 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Angel of Highgate written by Vaughn Entwistle and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “NOTHING LESS THAN THE WICKEDEST MAN IN LONDON…” It is October 1859, and notorious philanderer Lord Geoffrey Thraxton cares for nothing except his own amusement. After humiliating an odious literary critic and surviving the resulting duel, he boasts of his contempt for mortality, and insults the attending physician. It is a mistake he will come to regret. When Thraxton becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who appears to him one fog-shrouded night in Highgate Cemetery, he unwittingly provides the doctor with the perfect means to punish a man with no fear of death…