White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings

by IainSinclair (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $21.11

  Combines a sort of spiritual inquest into the Whitechapel Ripper murders and the dark side of the late Victorian imagination with another plot thread, done in hectic picaresque, of a posse of seedy book dealers hot on the trail of obscure rarities of that period.

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $14.96

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $13.68

  This is a novel about London - its past, its people, its underbelly and its madness. 'In this extraordinary work, Sinclair combines a spiritual inquest into the Whitechapel Ripper murders and the dark side of the late Victorian imagination with a posse of seedy book dealers hot on the trail of obscure rarities of that period. These ruined and ruthless dandies appear and disappear through a phantasmagoria interspersed with occult conjurings and reflections on the nature of fiction and history' - Guardian .