Twilight Edinburgh. Secrets of Ian Hamilton. Lawrence K.

Edinburgh, the end of the XIX century. Well -being in new areas, crime, prostitution and poverty in the old city. Detective Ien Hamilton is investigating the death of a young man in Holirud Park. A strange playing card - with a dancing skeleton found with the deceased - the only clue in the case. The investigation includes Lilian, Aunt Hamilton, and George Pirson, a librarian, vividly interested in everything that is close to a criminal mind. But more and more victims appear, newspapers talk about the "holirudsk strander", panic begins in the city. And with each victim, the killer is getting closer to Hamilton. And in the biography of Yen himself the mysterious and unsolved death of his parents, which takes his soul.

What is special in the book:

• the good old detective, no modern ways of investigation.
• Detective storyline, but also the drama of the detective itself.
• atmosphere of old Edinburgh: fogs, rains, twilight...
• The contrast of lyricism and cruelty in the world of the hero.
• ...