A lamplighter, historically, was an employee of a town who lit gas streetlights, generally by means of a wick on a long pole. In some communities, lamplighters served in a role akin to a town watchman; in others, it may have been seen as little more than a sinecure. There is a long history of the role of a lamplighter-as-lightbringer as a symbolic figure in literature. A streetlight in front of a red sky at night A street light, also known as a light standard, is a raised light on the edge of a road, turned on or lit at a certain time every night. ... A security guard is a private person who is employed to protect property and people. ... A sinecure (from Latin sine, without, and cura, care) means an office which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labour, or active service. ...
"Lamplighters" is a bar in Palatine, IL "Lamplighters" is the musical-theatre performing branch of the Opera West Foundation, based in San Francisco, CA.
She claims to have dreamed of these ghastly events in some detail, and insists that the murderer is a lamplighter she'd often heard working outside her orphanage window as a girl.
Whichever the case, it becomes clear to Groves that he's dealing with a deeply troubled woman, and the fact that she seems to be connected to each successive murder is not helping matters at all.
The Lamplighter cleverly metamorphoses from a slowly building serial-killer tale into something much more compelling, delving deeply into logic, the existence of humankind and ruminations on ideas espoused by such philosophers as René Descartes.
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