Despite the Noble Savage bit, and the fact that Tom’s role in the tale is largely a passive one as his associates do most of the fighting and deduction, fans of Pullman’s Victorian tales may enjoy the similar level of violence and almost tangibly miasmic setting. The killer turns out to be a tattooed, English-speaking Mohawk with an astonishing head for heights and an otherwise peaceable nature who is exacting vengeance on a gang of thieves responsible for the massacre of his village. Josiah Harker and other adult allies, he is led to crime scenes, taught to sift for clues, and survives several narrow squeaks. Young printer’s son Tom Marlowe becomes involved in the hunt after a lowlife friend, Will, is found strangled enlisting the aid of canny, well-traveled Dr. A shadowy killer stalks the city’s rooftops, each of his arrow-shot victims found with an ominous calling card. Priestley has also written for radio, contributing two stories to the BBC Radio 2 It's Grimm Up North collection of Brothers Grimm updates, transmitted on Christmas Eve 2012.Priestly pours generous measures of Dickens and Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan, that is) into this melodramatic murder mystery, set amid the vividly rendered stews of 18th-century London.
Mister Creecher won the BASH (Book Award St Helens) in 2012. Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth won the Dracula Society Children of the Night Award in 2009. The German translation of Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror was shortlisted for a Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2011. Tales of Terror from the Black Ship won a CPNB Vlag and Wimpel in 2010 for the Dutch translation. In 2004, Death and the Arrow was shortlisted for an Edgar Award in the US, and in 2006, Redwulf's Curse won the Lancashire Fantastic Book Award. In 2000 he published his first children's book, Dog Magic. His paintings have been widely exhibited, most recently at the Eastern Open and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, both in 2013. From 1990 to 1996 he was a weekly cartoonist on The Economist, and from 1996 to 1998 a daily cartoonist on The Independent. He has produced several strip cartoons - Bestiary for The Independent on Sunday (with Chris Riddell), Babel for The Observer, 7:30 for 8:0 for The Independent and Payne’s Grey for the New Statesman. He also worked briefly as a poster designer for the Royal Court Theatre and others. He worked as an illustrator for a wide range of clients and his work appeared regularly in The Times, The Listener and The Observer.
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