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The Lamplighter by Anthony O'Neill; Shane O'Neill is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Lamplighter about?

Evelyn is a clever orphan at the Fountainbridge Institute for Destitute Girls. Enchanted by a cheerful lamplighter who fires the streetlamp outside her window each evening, she mesmerizes the other girls with flights of fancy. In a time before Freudian awareness of sexuality and the subconscious mind, such tales are forbidden by the institute's governor, who warns Evelyn to cease her nocturnal storytelling." "Evelyn defies him - and is cast out of the orphanage and sacrificed to a shadowy figure claiming to be her long-lost father. Who is this man, and why does he lock Evelyn away in a hunting lodge?" "Years later, the mutilated body of a professor of ecclesiastical law turns up on one of Edinburgh's finest streets; the grave of a famous colonel is ravaged; a shady entrepreneur is slaughtered while dashing for a train; and a retired lighthouse keeper is ripped to shreds while walking his dog - all this after Evelyn, now a young woman, has reappeared in the city." "What connects the victims? And what of Evelyn, anguished and appealing, who repeatedly claims to have dreamed the murders in great detail - each time blaming a mysterious "lamplighter"?" Leading the official investigation

Who reads The Lamplighter?

Author

Anthony O'Neill; Shane O'Neill

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Australia

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780732275686

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.13 / 5 (282 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14