The lamplighter
Subtitle: a novel
By: Anthony O'Neill.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Philosophy teachers -- Fiction.; Serial murders -- Fiction.; Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When 19th century Edinburgh is horrified by a series of brutal murders, a young woman claims to have dreamed each crime in detail and blames them on a lamplighter who may or may not be real. The official investigation headed by police inspector Carus Groves; the unofficial one, by professor of logic and metaphysics, Thomas McKnight, and his assistant, Joseph Canavan, gravedigger.