Review – The Limehouse Golem

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a story so thoroughly eclipsed by its own background characters. The main plot surrounds a series of murders in a lower class district of Victorian London, and changing the specifics around a little doesn’t serve to depart in any meaningful way from the well-trodden path. But some of the suspects are actual semi-celebrities from the time period: actor Dan Leno, author George Gissing, and Karl Marx (who of course needs no further introduction). Other than 19th century name-dropping, however, this is an unimaginative murder mystery and not much more. See if desperate