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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
0-87054-088-2

Originally published
  
1980

Illustrator
  
Stephen Fabian

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Publication date
  
1980

Pages
  
xii, 352 pp

OCLC
  
5353095

Author
  
Basil Copper

Publisher
  
Arkham House

Genres
  
Gothic fiction, Mystery

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Basil Copper books
  
The Great White Space, The Black Death, The House of the Wolf, From Evil's Pillow, Basil Copper: A Life in Bo

Necropolis is a British Gothic novel by author Basil Copper. It was published by Arkham House in 1980 in an edition of 4,050 copies. It was Copper's third book published by Arkham House.

Contents

Plot summary

The novel is set in Victorian England. Clyde Beatty, a private investigator, is hired by Angela Meredith to investigate her father's death. His investigations lead him to a nursing home in Surrey, directed by the sinister Dr. Horace Couchman. After an autopsy reveals the murder of Miss Meredith's father, Dr. Couchman flees to London leading Beatty eventually to the eerie Brockwood Cemetery and a criminal conspiracy involving millions of pounds worth of gold bullion.

Arkham House

  • Second Printing, 1981 - 1,539 copies.

    • Valancourt Books

  • In 2013 Valancourt Books reissued Necropolis with Stephen E. Fabian's illustrations and a new introduction by Stephen Jones.

    • Others

  • London: Sphere, 1981.

    • References

    Necropolis (Copper novel) Wikipedia
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