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I just finished this book, and as many of you have stated, it's a very long read, but I believe well worth the effort. What would lead one man to kill another? This book examines that question, as the reader learns why G- ends up killing Daunt, his former childhood friend and later rival to his family fortune. I thought that the book was beautifully written with an eye toward detail about 19th century Victorian England. The footnotes were a bit cumbersome, but I agree that they did not get in th
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Cox has clearly done his homework on London's people, places, and linguistic stylings during the 1850s, but the plot's twists and turns are so painfully obvious that I almost wish I'd brought a magazine. When your allegedly very clever protagonist takes 200 pages to figure something out while it takes your reader all of 2, something's amiss.
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