Susanna Gregory
The Piccadilly Plot
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Thomas Chaloner is relieved to be summoned home from Tangier. Back in London, and reunited with his new wife, he is nonetheless exasperated by the reason for his return. His master, the Earl of Clarendon, has recalled him to investigate petty theft from the construction site of Clarendon's embarrassingly sumptuous new house near Piccadilly. However, within hours of his return, Chaloner is embroiled in rumours of assassination, a stolen corpse and a scheme to frame the Queen for treason. Gradually he realises that all these events have links to the violence and corruption he has witnessed on the north African coast, and all are rooted at the h…
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Thomas Chaloner is relieved to be summoned home from Tangier. Back in London, and reunited with his new wife, he is nonetheless exasperated by the reason for his return. His master, the Earl of Clarendon, has recalled him to investigate petty theft from the construction site of Clarendon's embarrassingly sumptuous new house near Piccadilly. However, within hours of his return, Chaloner is embroiled in rumours of assassination, a stolen corpse and a scheme to frame the Queen for treason. Gradually he realises that all these events have links to the violence and corruption he has witnessed on the north African coast, and all are rooted at the heart of the capital's establishment. Courtiers vying for a share of the riches to be had from trading overseas are not going to have their ambitions thwarted by anyone, least of all by Chaloner ...
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7515-4428-2
- EAN: 9780751544282
- Produktnummer: 12583891
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Masse: H20.6 cm x B12.8 cm x D3.8 cm 344 g
- Abbildungen: maps
- Gewicht: 344
Über den Autor
Susanna Gregory was a police officer in Leeds before taking up an academic career. She has served as an environmental consultant, worked 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.
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