The City of Unspeakable Fear
by Ray, Jean
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- Paperback
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- Trade paperback, New,
- ISBN 10
- 1939663903
- ISBN 13
- 9781939663900
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About This Item
Cambridge: Wakefield Press, 2023. Trade paperback, New,. Cambridge: Wakefield Press:, 2023. Trade paperback, New, 240 pp.<br/> "Miss Marple meets H.P. Lovecraft in Ray's genre-defying tale of ghostly intrigue and murder Published in occupied Belgium in 1943 a few months after his celebrated novel Malpertuis, The City of Unspeakable Fear remains one of Jean Ray's most curious works. Haunting an ambiguous interzone between detective novel, horror fiction and Anglophile parody, it follows the misadventures of presumed police officer Sidney Terence Triggs upon his retirement to the sleepy English country town of Ingersham. A cast of characters worthy of Dickens awaits him, from the sympathetic old clerk Ebenezer Doove to the druggist Theobold Pycroft, the eccentric department store owner Gregory Cobwell and a motley collection of other humorously humdrum inhabitants."
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- Ziesings (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71773
- Title
- The City of Unspeakable Fear
- Author
- Ray, Jean
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1939663903
- ISBN 13
- 9781939663900
- Publisher
- Wakefield Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 2023
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