Book description
1900s London and Denton has mysteries to solve...
In The Frightened Man
American novelist Denton is about to be plunged into the dark heart of
a society where privilege and propriety hide unspeakable horrors. When a
stranger turns up at his door declaring he has just seen Jack the
Ripper, Denton dismisses his lurid ravings as the delusions of a madman.
But then a prostitute's horribly mutilated body is discovered that night
- and Denton suspects the two events are connected. While the police
investigation grinds towards a seemingly pre-ordained conclusion, Denton
becomes obsessed with finding out who the victim really was and who
killed her - a search that leads him by degrees into the darkest, most
violent underbelly of London.
In The Bohemian Girl
, Denton receives a strange letter which demands his attention: a note
from a young woman, Mary, saying she's in terrible danger and needs his
help. The letter is months old, and was only forwarded to him when the
buyer of a painting found it stuck behind the frame. Presumably whatever
Mary was frightened of has already happened. So why did she hide the
note behind this particular painting, instead of sending it? The search
for answers leads Denton into the heart of Bohemian London - a world of
brilliance and depravity, of unconventional morals and shifting sexual
identities, where the border between genius and madness is hard to
discern but easy to cross.
In The Second Woman
, Denton is drawn into a complex web of murder and revenge when a
mysterious Polish woman is found dead in the house adjoining his - the
one occupied by his lover, Janet Stryker - and while the police remain
baffled, he begins to suspect she is the victim of some sort of
political conspiracy. But involving himself in the life and death of
Lydia Alken will prove more dangerous than he could have imagined, as
Denton himself falls victim to the fledgling British Intelligence
Service and discovers exactly what the price of freedom really is, while
the real story of Lydia Alken's murder provides the biggest shock of
all. Kenneth Cameron is the author of the Denton series, as well as of
plays staged in Britain and the US, and the award-winning AFRICA ON
FILM: BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE. He lives part of the year in northern New
York State and part in the southern US.
