Above the Dark Circus
by Hugh Walpole
It revolves around Huge Walpole's gripping 1920s adventure novel Piccadilly Circus. Richard Gunn is a former soldier who gets into trouble after the end of the Great War. While starving to death in Piccadilly's circus, he encounters his enemy, Leroy Pungelli. From this meeting, the mysteries of their common past begin to unravel... A novel that combines horror and supernatural elements – of which Walpole was so adept – with an element of the whodunnit puzzle – all wrapped up in a disturbing and surprising whole.
