Published in the United States by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

DOUBLEDAY is a registered trademark of Penguin Random House LLC. Nan A. Talese and the colophon are trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

This novel is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events; to real people, living or dead; or to real locales are intended only to give the fiction a setting in historical reality. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and their resemblance, if any, to real-life counterparts is entirely coincidental.

Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain as Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem by Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, London, in 1994, and subsequently in hardcover as The Trial of Elizabeth Cree by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 1995.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ackroyd, Peter.

The Limehouse Golem : a novel of the Limehouse murders / Peter Ackroyd.

  p. cm.

 I. Title.

PR6051.C64T7 1995

823′.914—dc20   94-37348

eISBN: 978-0-307-81623-8
Copyright © 1994 by Peter Ackroyd

All Rights Reserved

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