"Above the Dark Circus" is a thrilling adventure novel of the 1920s written by British author Huge Walpole in 1931.
This classic revolves around Piccadily Circus and Richard Gunn, an ex-soldier in trouble after the end of the Great War. Jobless and starving in Piccadilly Circus, he encounters his nemesis, Leroy Pengelly. From this encounter the secrets of their shared past start to unravel...
"Above the Dark Circus" combines elements of the horror and supernatural - at which Walpole was so skilled - with the puzzle element of the whodunnit - all wrapped up in one unsettling and uncanny whole.
