This epic novel begins with a mysterious girl taking a journey by train and a loving mother making a Faustian bargain with a gallant but nefarious figure. Author Richard Dowling spins an intricate mystery from a number of seemingly disparate elements: family dysfunction, clashes between social classes in nineteenth-century England, and a far-fetched scheme to create gold from a specific combination of less valuable elements and materials. Somehow, Dowling manages to pull it off, weaving a satisfying tale that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
Called "The Duke of Long Acre" in jest by his chums, Charles Augustus Cheyne is an amiable figure with a shadowy past. When love arrives suddenly and unexpectedly, it throws a monkey wrench into the routines that make up his humdrum existence. Will the Duke be able to find a way to make this out-of-the-blue romance last forever?
The chief focus of The Last Call by Irish novelist Richard Dowling is the budding romance between protagonists Dominique Lavirotte and Eugene McDonell, but their love story is only one element of a rich tapestry of subplots, including mysterious deaths, duels, and mistaken identity.
Delve into this gripping family epic from popular Irish-born writer Richard Dowling, best known for the novel The Mystery of Killard. Over the course of the story, protagonist Henry Walter Grey becomes increasingly unhinged as he goes to great lengths to shield his family's reputation against enemies both real and imagined. Fans of the work of Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo will appreciate this ambitious novel.
Irish-born author Richard Dowling spent a significant portion of his life in London, and that remarkable city played a major role in many of Dowling's works. Under St. Paul's tells the tale of an unlikely romance that blooms between a pair of headstrong, eccentric lovers in the shadow of the massive and stately St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
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