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The Disappearing Eye

The Disappearing Eye

Hume, Fergus

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 9354945104
ISBN13: 9789354945106
Publisher: Alpha Ed
Published: Aug 17 2021
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A brisk, breathless puzzle wrapped in fog and gaslight, The Disappearing Eye draws you into a London where perception and reality slip like a hansom cab through a narrow alley. Fergus Hume crafts a compact, gripping victoria-era crime thriller that feels both intimate and expansive. Through a deft braid of disappearance and deceit, the tale threads a keen period detective fiction with a modern sensitivity to motive, misdirection, and the claustrophobic psychology of a city under scrutiny. The mystery moves with clarity and nerve, delivering a fresh sense of wonder for classic mystery readers while feeding scholars of Victorian England with a precise, atmosphere-rich backdrop-dim parlours, lamplit streets, and the murmur of urban life in a time of rapid change. This edition is more than a reprint: it is a restored cultural treasure, curated by Alpha Editions for today's and tomorrow's readers. Out of print for decades, it returns with the care owed to a work that influenced the genre's cadence and mood, a touchstone for those who relish an Edgar Allan Poe vibe in the discipline of deduction. The Disappearing Eye speaks to casual readers and academic study readers alike, offering a compact, luminous dose of intrigue that honours its period while speaking directly to modern tastes. A true collector's item, it invites renewed discussion of illusion and truth in victorian mystery and its enduring fascination with misperception.

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