The Somnambulist

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The Somnambulist
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Author Jonathan Barnes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fantasy novel / horror
Publisher Gollancz (Hardcover edition)
Publication date
2007
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages353 pp (Hardcover edition)
ISBN 978-0-06-137538-5 (Hardcover edition)
OCLC 191823179
823/.92 22
LC Class PR6102.A768 S66 2007

The Somnambulist is a 2007 fantasy/horror novel set in the late Victorian period, and is the debut novel by Jonathan Barnes. The protagonists Edward Moon, a conjurer and detective, and his silent partner The Somnambulist, a milk-drinking giant who does not bleed when stabbed, are called to investigate a murder that may tie to the poetry and prophecies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the fate of London.


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