The Disappearing Eye

By Fergus Hume

Book Overview

A brisk, breathless puzzle wrapped in fog and gaslight, The Disappearing Eye draws you into a London where perception and reality slip like a hansom cab through a narrow alley. Fergus Hume crafts a compact, gripping victoria-era crime thriller that feels both intimate and expansive. Through a deft braid of disappearance and deceit, the tale threads a keen period detective fiction with a modern sensitivity to motive, misdirection, and the claustrophobic psychology of a city under scrutiny. The mystery moves with clarity and nerve, delivering a fresh sense of wonder for classic mystery readers while feeding scholars of Victorian England with a precise, atmosphere-rich backdrop-dim parlours, lamplit streets, and the murmur of urban life in a time of rapid change. This edition is more than a reprint: it is a restored cultural treasure, curated by Alpha Editions for today's and tomorrow's readers. Out of print for decades, it returns with the care owed to a work that influenced the genre's cadence and mood, a touchstone for those who relish an Edgar Allan Poe vibe in the discipline of deduction. The Disappearing Eye speaks to casual readers and academic study readers alike, offering a compact, luminous dose of intrigue that honours its period while speaking directly to modern tastes. A true collector's item, it invites renewed discussion of illusion and truth in victorian mystery and its enduring fascination with misperception.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354945104
• ISBN13: 9789354945106
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"