The Worms of Euston Square [Import] [Paperback]

William Sutton (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 362 pages
• Publisher: Mercat Press (August 21, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 184183100X
• ISBN-13: 978-1841831008
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,442,653 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

William Sutton was born in Scotland in 1970 and appeared in pantomime at the age of nine.

He learned blues harmonica from his Latin teacher, drove to California in a VW beetle and studied classics at Oxford. Besides writing radio plays and short stories, he has acted in the longest play in the world, tutored the Sugababes and played cricket for Brazil.

After living in Brazil and Italy, teaching English and singing in ice cream shops, he has returned to the UK where he teaches Latin and plays accordion.

The Worms of Euston Square is a literary mystery set beneath the smoggy cobblestones of Victorian London. The Scotsman newspaper said: William Sutton's first novel is a fine, extravagant and thoroughly enjoyable example of Victorian Crime fiction. It somewhat resembles Boris Akunin's Fandòrin international bestsellers, and there is no good reason why Sutton's Worms of Euston Square shouldn't also do very well.

One of the joys of the novel is the language employed by Worm and his friends, part authentic Victorian slang, part thieves' cant, and part - I rather think - invented ... The action moves with dizzying speed from the highest quarters in the land to the vilest slums and low dives of the teeming city. ... A tale of this sort requires fine villains, and Sutton obliges us with a couple ... This is a world enveloped in smoke and fog. The fun is fast and furious.

We are told that William Sutton is now at work on another Campbell Lawless mystery. If he can maintain this standard of invention, this mastery of linguistic tone, he is on to a winner. (Allan Massie, The Scotsman)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping historical crime fiction, September 16, 2006

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This review is from: The Worms of Euston Square (Paperback)

I couldn't put this book down, it's a real pageturner. Fans of Sarah Waters, Caleb Carr, or indeed Dickens himself will love this brilliant plot set in Victorian London, as the tunnels for the new Underground worm their way under the city streets. The political theme of urban terror is the bass note behind a roaring and hilarious panorama in which the corrupt authorities stink as much as the sewers which our hero, young Scottish policeman Campbell Lawless, has to patrol. Few novels, let alone debuts, manage so finely to combine exquisite emotional accuracy with such a driving, urgent drama, in which we don't find out the crime, let alone the criminal, until it could be too late.