by Robert Goddard · Corgi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552132824
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«Painting the Darkness» is the suspense novel by Robert Goddard, published by Corgi in paperback (608 pages, in English).
Autumn 1882: William Trenchard receives a visit from a stranger who introduces himself as James Norton but claims to be Sir James Davenall, the former fiancé of his wife Constance, who had supposedly committed suicide eleven years earlier. The Davenall family rejects him, and Trenchard enters an uneasy alliance as the family's secrets come to light.
Robert Goddard's third novel, originally published in 1989 by Bantam; the Corgi edition is from 1990.
For readers of suspense and mystery novels set in Victorian England, with family secrets and hidden identities.
Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American physicist, inventor, and engineer credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926. By 1915 his pioneering work had dramatically improved the efficiency of the solid-fueled rocket, signaling the era of the modern rocket and innovation. He and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.6 mi) and speeds as fast as 885 km/h (550 mph).
