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Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (published in the United States as The Trial of Elizabeth Cree) is a 1994 novel by the English author Peter Ackroyd. It is a murder mystery framed within a story featuring real historical characters, and set in a recreation of Victorian London.
- Peter Ackroyd
- 1994
An abused child, she turns to prostitution for a living. However, she is discovered by Dan Leno and becomes a music hall star and marries the reporter, John Cree. The novel, however, opens with her hanging – for having poisoned her husband.
Starring Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke and Douglas Booth, The Limehouse Golem is a Victorian murder mystery thriller based on a novel by Peter Ackroyd. The story follows a seasoned detective (Bill Nighy) as he hunts a ruthless serial killer through the streets of Victorian London.
The Limehouse Golem is a 2016 British horror-mystery film directed by Juan Carlos Medina from a screenplay by Jane Goldman. The film, an adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's 1994 murder mystery novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, stars Olivia Cooke, Bill Nighy and Douglas Booth.
Jan 1, 2001 · In Peter Ackroyd's novel the world of late-Victorian music hall and pantomime becomes implicated in a number of sinister scenes and episodes, and the connection between the light and dark sides of nineteenth-century London begins to attract contemporary figures as George Gissing and Karl Marx.
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London, 1880. A series of gruesome murders attributed to the mysterious 'Limehouse Golem' strikes fear into the heart of the capital. Inspector John Kildare must track down this brutal serial killer in the damp, dark alleyways of riverside London.
A series of gruesome murders attributed to the mysterious 'Limehouse Golem' strikes fear into the heart of the capital. Inspector John Kildare must track down this...
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