A literary tour de force of a detective's ceaseless hunt for an
elusive criminal
By Gaslight is a deeply atmospheric, haunting novel about the unending
quest that has shaped a man's life.
William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of the most notorious
detective of all time, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian
London in pursuit of a new lead on the fabled con Edward Shade.
William's father died without ever finding Shade, but William is
determined to drag the thief out of the shadows.
Adam Foole is a gentleman without a past, haunted by a love affair ten
years gone. When he receives a letter from his lost beloved, he returns
to London to find her. What he learns of her fate, and its connection to
the man known as Shade, will force him to confront a grief he thought
long-buried.
A fog-enshrouded hunt through sewers, opium dens, drawing rooms, and
séance halls ensues, creating the most unlikely of bonds: between
Pinkerton, the great detective, and Foole, the one man who may hold the
key to finding Edward Shade.
Steven Price's dazzling, riveting By Gaslight moves from the diamond
mines of South Africa to the battlefields of the Civil War, on a journey
into a cityscape of grief, trust, and its breaking, where what we share
can bind us even against our darker selves.
