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Authors: John MacLachlan Gray

BOOK: The Fiend in Human

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“You can’t expect fellows like them murderers to have any regard for the interest of art and literature. Then there’s so long to wait between the murder and the trial, that unless the fiend in human form keeps writing beautiful love-letters, the excitement can’t be kept up.
We
can write love-letters for the fiend in human? That’s quite true and we once had great pull in that way over the newspapers. But Lord love you, there’s plenty of ’em gets more and more into our line. They treads in our footsteps, Sir. They follows our bright example.”

– A Running Patterer

From
London Labour and the London Poor
, by Henry Mayhew.

THE FIEND IN HUMAN. Copyright © 2003 by John MacLachlan Gray. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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First published in the United Kingdom by Century
The Random House Group Limited

eISBN 9781429974493

First eBook Edition : March 2011

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gray, John, 1946 –

The fiend in human / John MacLachlan Gray.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-312-28284-2 (hc)
ISBN 0-312-33526-1 (pbk)
EAN 978-0312-33526-7

1. Prostitutes—Crimes against—Fiction. 2. London (England)—Fiction. 3. Journalists—Fiction. I. Title.

PR9199.3.G753F54 2003

813’.54—dc21