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| Living conditions in the East End of London at the end of the 19th century are described in graphic detail as we follow the life of Dicky Perrott and his family as they try to survive in the urban jungle that is the Jago. The story builds to its inevitable tragic climax.
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| This is the first book of Martin Hewitt stories written by Morrison. Hewitt is an imitation of Sherlock Holmes, but in reverse. He is ordinary, short, and good tempered and gladly cooperates with the police. He plays both ends against the middle, sometimes behaving as badly as the criminals. [Wikipedia]
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| A famous diamond, "The Green Eye of Goona," is mysteriously stolen from an Indian rajah. It is said to be concealed in one of a dozen magnums of Tokay wine. A young Englishman, Harvey Crook, sets out to find the diamond.
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| The old East End of London was a secret and dangerous place. How much thieving and plotting, fighting and knifing and murdering, went on there nobody ever knew or ever will know. The police, who were treated as a common enemy, went about in threes. But towards its own people it could be protective and sentimental. Above all, it was alive, rich in its human texture. This was the private world which Arthur Morrison--journalist, story-teller and collector of Oriental paintings--made authentically his own.
The Hole in the Wall, which V. S. Pritchett described as "one of the minor masterpieces of this century [early 20th century]," is a thriller, or perhaps more accurately a Dickensian murder story, set in the most sinister part of London's dockland, about a hundred years ago.
Young Stephen Kemp goes to live with his grandfather, who keeps an old inn--The Hole in the Wall--leaning crazily out over the river. And it is through Stephen's eyes that we see the tale of villainy and vengean
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| Six more stories of the cases of Martin Hewitt, Investigator.
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