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The Mesmerist's Apprentice | 
 enlarge | Author: L.m. Jackson
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £14.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 119260
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 356
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0434015539
EAN: 9780434015535
ASIN: 0434015539
Publication Date: April 3, 2008
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Condition: Brand new book dispatched from stock in the UK
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Fantastic Victorian Page Turner! June 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Following on from "A Most Dangerous Woman", Lee Jackson (LM Jackson) delivers again with his fantastical second outing featuring the wonderful Sarah Tanner and her many disguises. Lovely to see all the characters from the first book, and as a reader you get to know much more about them in this follow up.
Sarah Tanner is a fesity lady who seems to attract trouble wherever she goes and gets into many a tight spot!
I would thoroughly recommend this book, but please do read "A Most Dangerous Woman" first.
Lee Jackson captures perfectly the ambience of Victorian London, and I can guarantee this will be unputdownable. Thrown in are a few twists and turns to keep you the reader hooked!
If you like these books, the Decimus Webb series by the same author are just as engrossing as the Sarah Tanner series. Can't wait for the next one!!
A cracking good read! June 20, 2008
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`The Mesmerist's Apprentice' is the sixth Victorian Murder Mystery by Lee Jackson, now known as L M Jackson, and one can see how his skills and characters have developed (although I still have a particular fondness for his first book, `London Dust').
The first point to be noted is that Lee knows his subject; his books are placed in a real world with real people, real locations and accurate backgrounds, clothing, food and transport. Not for him the somewhat Gothic or whimsical world of writers like Charles Dickens, here we have reality. Anyone who knows London can trace his characters movements through streets that were and, in many cases, still are. In fact, Lee as an academic is the author of `A Dictionary of Victorian London: An A-Z of the Great Metropolis,' which is the textual version of his website mentioned below.
The second point is that Lee is fast becoming a consummate artist at the twist in the plot; the sudden realisation that overturns all we have started to imagine or assume. It is a treat to read his books knowing that your assumptions WILL be overturned and wondering how it will be achieved. Excellent!
I recommend all of Lee's books to those who are fascinated by the realities of Victorian London (see Lee's website victorianlondon.org) and enjoy a good murder mystery with surprising twists.
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