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Curzon Tussaud (United Kingdom) (2009/06/23):
If this book were a symphony, it would be Haydn's "Surprise", if food, a fortune cookie, and if artwork, Peter Blake's cover for "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band": it is a wonderful rollercoaster through Victorian London with a serial killer on the loose and various characters from Dr Marvello's Travelling Circus attempting to prevent him from activating an even more dastardly plan. Forget the cerebral puzzlings of Wimsey or Holmes, Craske has an unholy trinity of Cornelius Quaint, circus owner, Butter, his Inuit assistant, and the circus giant Prometheus; together and separately they take enormous risks with their own safety to frustrate the dastardly machinations of.......... ......this is, however, far too good a read for me to spoil the ending for you! Luckily there is The Eleventh Plague to look forward to next year, and I hope for a long and exciting career for Cornelius Quaint.
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