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The Cheapside Corpse: The Tenth Thomas Chaloner Adventure (Adventures of Thomas Chaloner)

The Cheapside Corpse: The Tenth Thomas Chaloner Adventure (Adventures of Thomas Chaloner)

by SusannaGregory (Author)

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    Hardcover 2015

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Synopsis

London in the spring of 1665 is a city full of fear. There is plague in the stews of St Giles, the Dutch fleet is preparing to invade, and a banking crisis threatens to leave Charles II's government with no means of paying for the nation's defence. Amid the tension, Thomas Chaloner is ordered to investigate the murder of Dick Wheler, one of the few goldsmith-bankers to have survived the losses that have driven others to bankruptcy - or worse. At the same time, a French spy staggers across the city, carrying the plague from one parish to another. Chaloner's foray into the world of the financiers who live in and around Cheapside quickly convinces him that they are just as great a threat as the Dutch, but their power and greed thwart him at every turn. Meanwhile, the plague continues to spread across the city, and the body count from the disease and from the fever of avarice starts to rise alarmingly ...

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 480
 Edition: 0
 Publisher: Sphere
Published: 08 Jan 2015
ISBN 10: 0751552801
ISBN 13: 9780751552805
Book Overview: Another excellent historical adventure from Susanna Gregory featuring 17th-century spy Thomas Chaloner

Media Reviews
As fresh, exciting and entertaining as the wily spy's first outing ... These stories have become cult reading for history-mystery fans and it's easy to see why. Ingenious plotlines, a remarkably atmospheric evocation of time and place, a brilliant blend of real and fictional characters and some gloriously wry humour are the trusty trademarks of an author with her finger firmly on the pulse of Restoration England Bridlington Free Press Another carefully researched, imaginative and evocative foray into restoration England, this is a gritty but humorous period mystery Good Book Guide
Author Bio
Susanna Gregory was a police officer in Leeds before taking up an academic career. She has served as an environmental consultant during seventeen field seasons in the polar regions, and has taught comparative anatomy and biological anthropology. She is the creator of the Matthew Bartholomew series of mysteries set in medieval Cambridge and the Thomas Chaloner adventures in Restoration London, and now lives in Wales with her husband, who is also a writer.