Chris reviewed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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3 stars
This is a mean-streets Private Investigator novel set in present-day London but with echoes of Victoriana and Jack the Ripper. Marty Burns, star of the television detective series �Burning Bright�, is in England to promote his new show, and due to an unpleasant incident in the East End finds himself and a motley cast of adventurers detectiving for real. What they find brings in several diverse cultures and the geography of Secret London.
Marty Burns, however, is less tough guy than wise guy. He can�t resist smartass comments about everything, and doesn�t like anything he finds, not even the beer, so he spends the first chapter or two whingeing about everything, until events get nasty enough to occupy his attention otherwise.
Russell acknowledges the influence of Iain Sinclair ("the poet laureate of mysterious London"), and the amount of referents he manages to cram in is quite remarkable, as well as …
