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The protagonists Edward Moon, a conjurer and detective, and his silent partner The Somnambulist, a milk-drinking giant who does not bleed when stabbed, are called to investigate a murder that may tie to the poetry and prophecies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the fate of London.
Jan 1, 2007 · Jonathan Barnes' brilliant debut novel, The Somnambulist, chronicles the late Victorian-era adventures of a legendary magician-cum-detective Edward Moon and his mute, hulking, hairless sidekick, known only as the Somnambulist. The two investigate a series of bizarre murders, meet a cadre of eccentrics, and involve themselves in several strange ...
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Jan 10, 2008 · This is a fantasy-thriller, set in Victorian England and featuring the escapades of a stage magician and his sidekick, the 8-foot-tall giant known as the Somnambulist, as they try to unravel a fiendish mystery which threatens the very existence of the city.
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Jan 6, 2009 · The Somnambulist - who is never named and who never speaks - is only the most featured oddity in Barnes' repetoire of strange men and women who populate turn-of-the-20th-century London.
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Feb 1, 2008 · Turn-of-the-20th-century London is reimagined as a busily embattled hell on earth in Oxford graduate Barnes’s insistently eventful debut novel.
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On a night of roiling mists and long shadows, in a corner of the city where only the most foolhardy will deign to tread, a rather disreputable actor meets his end in a most bizarre...
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The Somnambulist: A Novel. Once the toast of good society in Victoria's England, the extraordinary conjurer Edward Moon no longer commands the respect that he did in earlier times.
