The Limehouse Golem by Peter AckroydMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
With the film soon to be released I bought a copy of the book to read before seeing the film. An enjoyable gothic tale from Peter Ackroyd set in 1880 in London. A plot that includes real people mixed with fictional characters: stage name Dan Leno (real name George Wild Galvin) a leading English music hall comedian, George Gissing, an English novelist, teacher and tutor and Karl Marx, the philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary. Clever stuff. Add in Lambeth Marsh Lizzie, who marries John Cree, Aveline Mortimer, housemaid and Inspector John Kildare and a series of brutal killings as Kildare tries to track down a serial killer who becomes known as the Limehouse golem - and you have all the makings of a macabre tale centred on the glamour of the music hall and the slums of the East End, dank, dark and chilling.
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