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Автор Марк Ходдер
Published 2014 by Pyr®, an imprint of Prometheus Books
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Hodder, Mark, 1962–
[Strage affair of Spring Heeled Jack]
The return of the discontinued man : a Burton & Swinburne adventure / by Mark Hodder.
pages cm — (A burton & swinburne adventure)
ISBN 978-1-61614-905-5 (paperback) — ISBN 978-1-61614-906-2 (ebook)
1. Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821–1890—Fiction. 2. Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909—Fiction. 3. Spring-heeled Jack (Legendary character)—Fiction. 4. Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901—Assassination attempts—Fiction. 5. Criminal investigation—England—London—Fiction. I.
Title.PR6108. O28S77 2014
823’. 92—dc23
2014003743
Printed in the United States of America
THE FIRST PART: THE VISIONS
CHAPTER 1 AN APPARITION IN LEICESTER SQUARE
CHAPTER 2 AN EXPERIMENT GONE AWRY
CHAPTER 3 AN EVENING WITH ORPHEUS
CHAPTER 4 RECURRENCES
CHAPTER 5 THE JUNGLE
CHAPTER 6 THE SECOND EXPERIMENT
CHAPTER 7 ECHOES OF OXFORD
CHAPTER 8 THE DREAMING ROSE
CHAPTER 9 AN UNLIKELY EXPEDITION
THE SECOND PART: THE VOYAGE
CHAPTER 10 THE APATHY OF 1914
CHAPTER 11 THE SQUARES, CATS AND DEVIANTS OF 1968
CHAPTER 12 THE GROSVENOR SQUARE RIOT OF 1968
CHAPTER 13 AN OLD FRIEND IN 2022
CHAPTER 14 THE ILLUSORY WORLD OF 2130
CHAPTER 15 THE TRUTH OF 2130 REVEALED
THE THIRD PART: THE FUTURE
CHAPTER 16 ARRIVAL 2202
CHAPTER 17 THE UPPERS AND THE LOWLIES
CHAPTER 18 HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA
CHAPTER 19 A PLEA TO PARLIAMENT
CHAPTER 20 SEVEN BIRTHS AND A DEATH
CHAPTER 21 BODIES
APPENDIX: MEANWHILE, IN THE VICTORIAN AGE AND BEYOND . . .
AFTERWORD
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
“You’re a drooling, bulge-eyed drug addict!”
The accusation, which Algernon Charles Swinburne screeched in his characteristically high-pitched and excitable tones, caused the entire saloon bar to fall momentarily silent.
Sir Richard Francis Burton glowered at his diminutive friend. “A little less volume, if you please. ”
“You’re hooked! An addle head! What next for you, hey? The gutters, perhaps? Bedlam lunatic asylum? A Limehouse opium den?”
“Limehouse doesn’t exist. It burned to the ground last year, as you well know. ”
“Pah! And I’ll say it again! Pah! In fact, once more for good measure! Pah to you, sir!”
