Word: ayscough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These mysterious events prompt an investigation by a shrewd, vinegary London barrister named Henry Ayscough, acting on behalf of a duke whose son is believed to be the vanished traveler. Most of the novel unfolds through Ayscough's persistent, painstaking inquiry, and it makes gripping reading indeed, part detective story, part crackling courtroom drama. A vivid gallery of the English underclasses passes under the lawyer's scrutiny. Testimony is offered on London brothel life, moonlit rituals at Stonehenge, witchcraft and an odd prefiguring of science fiction in a cavern beneath the Devon moors...
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