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|range          = Time Hunter
|range          = Time Hunter
|number in range = 7
|number in range = 7
|image          = TimeHunter7.jpg  
|image          = TimeHunter7.jpg
|number        = 7
|number        = 7
|main character = [[Erik Clevedon]]
|main character = [[Erik Clevedon]]
|featuring      = [[Honoré Lechasseur|Honoré]], [[Emily Blandish|Emily]]
|featuring      = [[Honoré Lechasseur|Honoré]], [[Emily Blandish|Emily]]
|enemy          = [[Supernormal]]s  
|enemy          = [[Supernormal]]s
|setting        = [[Great Britain]], [[1950]]
|setting        = [[Great Britain]], [[1950]]
|writer        = [[Philip Purser-Hallard]]
|writer        = Philip Purser-Hallard
|read by        = [[John Leeson]]
|read by        = [[John Leeson]]
|publisher      = Telos Publishing  
|publisher      = Telos Publishing
|release date  = [[July (releases)|July]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]]
|release date  = July 2005
|format        = {{Il|Hardback|Paperback|144 pages}}
|format        = {{Il|Hardback|Paperback|144 pages}}
|isbn          = ISBN 1-903889-47-2
|isbn          = ISBN 1-903889-47-2
|series        = ''[[Time Hunter]]''  
|series        = ''[[Time Hunter]]''
|prev          = Echoes (novel)
|prev          = Echoes (novel)
|next          = Deus Le Volt (novel)
|next          = Deus Le Volt (novel)

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Peculiar Lives was the seventh novel in the Time Hunter series published by Telos Publishing. It was written by Philip Purser-Hallard.

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"From the pen of Mr Erik Clevedon, Peculiar Lives is another 'scientific romance' along the lines of The Coming Times and The Star Beasts. Exotic colour is added by the character of an American Negro detective, Honoré Lechasseur, and his delightful English companion Miss Blandish."

Once a celebrated author of 'scientific romances', Erik Clevedon is an old man now. But his fiction conceals a dangerous truth, as Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish discover after a chance encounter with a strangely gifted young pickpocket. Born between the Wars, the superhuman children known as 'the Peculiar' are reaching adulthood -- and they believe that humanity is making a poor job of looking after the world they plan to inherit...

Part mystery, part detective story, part dark fantasy, part science fiction ... original adventures in time and space.

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Audiobook cover.
  • The story was released as an audiobook read by John Leeson.
  • Purser-Hallard published some bonus "extracts from the notebooks of Erik Clevedon" on his website.[1]
  • Gideon Beech would later appear in Purser-Hallard's Sherlock Holmes novel, The Vanishing Man, released in 2019.

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