A tale set in Victorian London introduces the characters of a stage magician and detective and his silent sidekick, whose fiendish plot to re-create the apocalyptic prophecies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge threaten the British Empire.

The Somnambulist is British author Jonathan Barnes' first novel.

Cabell Library PR6102.A768 S66 2008

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