Phil Lecomber

The Devil's Banquet (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The second novel in the Piccadilly Noir series, this dark historical thriller sees Cockney private eye George Harley return to the streets of London's Soho, populated by gangsters, wide-boys and lowlifes, to investigate a missing cabaret dancer and a child believed stole by his nemesis, the child murderer and occultist Professor Morkens. For fans of Dominic Nolan and Laura Shepherd Robinson. Four years after bringing the infamous child-killer known as the 'Nursery Butcher' to justice - and still haunted by the brutal vengeance exacted by the psychopath's ruthless allies - Cockney private eye George Harley is finally back in business, operating a new detective agency in the heart of London's Soho. Harley and his new assistant Bunty are presented with their first case when a distressed father engages them to investigate the disappearance of his daughter, who has run away from home to join a cabaret troupe led by the notorious 'Queen of Depravity' Ilse Blau, now in London after being driven out by the Nazis from Weimar-era Berlin. But in Harley's liminal world, things are never straightforward, and the detective soon finds himself embroiled in another pitch-dark scenario, with London's decadent, thrill-seeking gentry on one side and West End mobsters and wide-boys in search of easy cash on the other. When he discovers that a six-year-old has been kidnapped from an orphanage, Harley is convinced his old nemesis has somehow broken out of the lunatic asylum and is back on the streets of London, up to his old tricks. Set in 1933 and following on from the events of Midnight Streets, this second instalment in the Piccadilly Noir series sees George Harley return to the frowzy alleyways and sleazy nightclubs of the UK capital in search of answers - no matter how uncomfortable they might turn out to be. But when he becomes ensnared in the mind games of a wily femme fatale, and finds himself up against ruthless Glaswegian gangsters, well-connected occultists, and undercover SS agents, those answers become increasingly hard to find.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Titan Books
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781835417324
• Artikelnr.: 75971190

Autorenporträt

Phil Lecomber was born on the outskirts of South East London. Although he now resides in the beautiful city of Bath, he has spent most of his working life in the capital, in a variety of occupations. Phil's diverse career has included time as a musician performing in the city's clubs, pubs, and dives; a steel-fixer working on the towering edifices of the Square Mile; and a designer of stained-glass windows. For 35 years, he worked in Mayfair at the internationally renowned fine art auction house Sotheby's, where he oversaw electronic security for some of the world's most valuable works of art. His debut novel, Midnight Streets - the first in the Piccadilly Noir series - was published in spring 2025. The second in the series, The Devil's Banquet, is set for release in 2026. All of which, of course, has provided wonderful material for a novelist's inspiration. Always an avid reader, a chance encounter as a teenager with a Gerald Kersh short story led to a fascination with the 'Morbid Age'-the years between the wars. The world that Phil has created for the Piccadilly Noir series is the result of the consumption and distillation of myriad contemporary novels, films, historical accounts, biographies and slang dictionaries of the 1920/30s-with a nod here and there to some of the real-life colourful characters that he's had the pleasure of rubbing shoulders with over the years.