The Black Hand: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel (Barker and Llewelyn Book 5)
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (510 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004PYDAZO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 170 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Mafia Murder Most Magnifico Will Thomas' Barker & Llewellyn Victorian murder mystery series is beyond the shadow of a doubt, the best out there in the gaslight and cobblestone genre. And it seems that not only are the reading public fans saying this, but many very popular other mystery authors are touting it as well. With every installment the characters get more developed, the stories more intriguing and exciting. The author has an incredible talent of blending the ingredients of m. The Black Hand of the Mafia in Victorian London April London, 1885. A barrel is pulled from the Thames with the dead body of an Italian assassin who works for the boss of the Camorra in London. At the same time the Director of the East and West India Docks is found dead; the coroner thinks it might have been an ice-pick through the ear, but can't prove it. Threatening notes with the Black Hand symbol of a Sicilian organization called the Mafia have shown up--along with assassination attempts. The Home Office. ""And so it begins again"" according to Gary Griffiths. If you're not familiar with Will Thomas and the Barker/Llewelyn series, "The Black Hand" is, like the Holmes/Watson classics which it mimics, an entertaining mystery set in Victorian England - the "Miller Lite" of fiction - a "less filling" little gem of a novel that still "tastes great".Thomas sets the hook early in this one, as a barrel containing the putrified corpse of an infamous and feared Sicilian assassin is fished from the Thames. Fearing the thr
When an Italian assassin's body is found floating in a barrel in Victorian London's East End, enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn are called in to investigate. Soon corpses begin to appear all over London, each accompanied by a Maf ia Black Hand note. As Barker and Llewelyn dig deeper, they become entangled in the vendettas of rival Italian syndicates -- and it is no longer clear who is a friend or foe.
From Booklist In this fifth adventure for Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn, the Victorian detecting duo pulls out all the stops to squelch an Italian incursion into local organized crime. Despite the unrelenting violence and burgeoning paranoia, Llewelyn’s first-person narrative infuses the story with his trademark humor—wry, self-deprecating, and sometimes macabre (think Madame LaFarge’s knitting). In an underground meeting readers won’t soon forget, the pugnacious Barker foments a gang war guaranteed to leave fans with clenched fists. After a particularly personal attack, Barker lands on a unique solution to rid the East End of the unwelcome Sicilians. The secretive Barker, with his dark glasses, squat dog, and Buddhist leanings, is pushed to his psychological limit when he is called to the scene of a particularly gruesome murder and is later threatened with a “black hand” note and physical attacks on his household. Characters wort
Will Thomas is the author of Some Danger Involved, the first novel featuring Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn, and now a Barry and Shamus Award nominee. He lives with his family in Oklahoma.