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Limehouse Text the Paperback - 2016

by Thomas

Victorian enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn discover a pawn ticket among the effects of Barker's late assistant, leading them to a rare and secret text stolen from a Nanking monastery. The duo must not only track down a killer intent upon gaining the secret knowledge but also safeguard the text from a snarl of suspects with conflicting interests.


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In The Limehouse Text, Barker and Llewelyn discover a pawn ticket among the effects of Barker's late assistant, leading them to London's Chinese district, Limehouse. There they retrieve an innocent-looking book that proves to be a rare and secret text stolen from a Nanking monastery, containing lethal martial arts techniques forbidden to the West. With the political situation between the British Empire and Imperial China already unstable, the duo must not only track down a killer intent upon gaining the secret knowledge but also safeguard the text from a snarl of suspects with conflicting interests.

Prowling through an underworld of opium dens, back-room blood sports, and sailors' penny hangs while avoiding the wrath of the district's powerful warlord, Mr. K'ing, Barker and Llewelyn take readers on a perilous tour through the mean streets of turn-of-the-century London.

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In The Limehouse Text, Barker and Llewelyn discover a pawn ticket among the effects of Barker's late assistant, leading them to London's Chinese district, Limehouse. There they retrieve an innocent-looking book that proves to be a rare and secret text stolen from a Nanking monastery, containing lethal martial arts techniques forbidden to the West. With the political situation between the British Empire and Imperial China already unstable, the duo must not only track down a killer intent upon gaining the secret knowledge but also safeguard the text from a snarl of suspects with conflicting interests. Prowling through an underworld of opium dens, back-room blood sports, and sailors' penny hangs while avoiding the wrath of the district's powerful warlord, Mr. K'ing, Barker and Llewelyn take readers on a perilous tour through the mean streets of turn-of-the-century London.

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I WAS THE LONE OCCIDENTAL IN A ROOM FULL OF Chinamen, and all of them were talking at once.

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  • Title Limehouse Text the
  • Author Thomas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tous - Touchstone Press, New York
  • Date 2016-04-04
  • ISBN 9780743273350 / 0743273354
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.36 x 0.78 in (20.57 x 13.61 x 1.98 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, London (England)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005046613
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/01/2007, Page 6
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/17/2006, Page 168

About the author

Will Thomas is the author of theBarker and Llewelyn series, a series of mystery novels set in Victorian England. The first novel in the series was nominated for a Barry Award and a Shamus Award, and won the 2005 Oklahoma Book Award. He lives with his family in Oklahoma.
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