Ruler of the night - David Morrell

The notorious Opium-Eater returns in the sensational climax to David Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mystery trilogy.

Ruler of the Night
blends fact and fiction to an exceptional degree, this time focusing on
an actual Victorian murder so startling that it changed the culture -
in this case, the first murder on an English train, its brutality
stoking fears that the newly invented railway would, as one newspaper
predicted, 'annihilate time and space.'

As they track the killer
through the harrowing fogbound streets of 1855 London Thomas De Quincey
and his irrepressible daughter, Emily, confront their most ruthless
enemy. The stakes couldn't be greater: both the heart of Victorian
society and De Quincey's tormented soul.

The fast-paced
narrative matches the speed with which the railway changed Victorian
life as master storyteller David Morrell transports readers back in
time, away from the modern world and into the dangerous shadows of the
past.