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| Author | : Ernest Dudley |
| Publisher | : EndeavorMedia.ORIM |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2017-10-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1839010770 |
A criminal becomes a secret agent for Sir John Fielding and his Bow Street Runners in this historical novel set in eighteenth century London. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, London is a place of rapid expansion, population growth, and waves of crime like the city has never scene. The blind magistrate, Sir John Fielding, otherwise known as “The Blind Beak,” has instigated a new law enforcement organization, the Bow Street Runners, to combat the rise of criminals. Londoner Nick Rathburn is a man of a mysterious birth, who finds his luck coming and going throughout his life. A petty thief, he manages to fight his way out of Newgate Gaol and by some twist of fate, becomes a secret agent for The Blind Beak himself. Meanwhile, as protests against the Catholic Church devolve into the infamous Gordon riots, and Sir John finds himself caught amidst the terrorizing mob, Nick faces death on the gallows at Tyburn . . .
| Author | : Martin Davey |
| Publisher | : Martin Davey |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2021-07-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781919642031 |
"This is more than just bloody murder Inspector, this is a race war, with magic on one side and a right evil monster who thinks it's the devil's work on the other." Archibald Strop. Editor. The Newgate Calendar. DCI Judas Iscariot of Scotland Yard's occult magic division, the Black Museum, has only been back in London for five minutes when things get bloody. Bloody quickly. Something evil has returned from the depths of the London Necropolis Burial Grounds. There's only one thing that its black heart desires - the extermination of the Fae and the destruction of the magical underworld they inhabit. The attacks begin, the death toll rises, and Judas quickly realises that the Fae and all the races of London's Under Folk are in danger. And with fairy pickpockets, Welsh tree spirits that love a good hustle, Dick Whittington's cat, angels and lots of friendly fire from a new threat to the Black Museum to contend with, he's far busier than he would like to be. Then Lucifer the Morningstar, First of the Fallen, arrives unannounced; he knows something that Judas doesn't, and wants him to change sides as payment for spilling the beans. Surrounded by enemies, always one step behind, and running out of time as usual, it's all looking a bit bleak for Judas. But isn't it always?
| Author | : Deryn Lake |
| Publisher | : Severn House/ORIM |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2012-04-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 178010152X |
A mismatched marriage ends in tragedy, and a mystery for Apothecary John Rawlings, in this historical set in eighteenth-century England. February, 1768. Apothecary John Rawlings has travelled to Devon to be by the side of his mistress, Marchesa Elizabeth di Lorenzi, who is due to give birth to their child. Leaving his shop—and his new carbonated water business—in good hands, John arrives at Sidmouth House to a surprise. While Elizabeth is recuperating, John learns that Lady Sidmouth’s cousin, Miranda, is to marry the elderly Earl of St. Austell, who is more than fifty years her senior and has a cruel reputation. As the wedding day approaches, John feels increasingly uneasy, and before too long his worst forebodings are realized . . . Death at the Wedding Feast is the fourteenth book in the John Rawlings Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. “The latest in Lake’s long-running series continues to mix period detail and a sound mystery with a hint of romance.” —Kirkus Reviews
| Author | : Deryn Lake |
| Publisher | : Severn House Publishers Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2013-02-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1448300770 |
John Rawlings, the apothecary with a talent for detective work, and John Fielding, the blind magistrate, make a welcome return in this evocative Georgian mystery. They are enjoying a performance of ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ in Drury Lane when the leading actor dramatically falls to his death on stage. As they begin the hunt for clues, they discover a hotbed of rivalry on and off the stage and a trail of obsession that leads to the dark heart of a cold-blooded murder.
| Author | : Deryn Lake |
| Publisher | : Severn House Publishers Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2013-08-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1448300940 |
John Rawlings, the exuberant young apothecary, is celebrating in The Devil’s Tavern, a popular if notorious haunt for sailors and smugglers. Stumbling across a corpse that has been fished out of the Thames, he identifies it as Sir William Hartfield, the bridegroom who had failed to show at his own wedding earlier that day. As the drowning reveals itself as murder, Rawlings is called upon by London’s revered sightless magistrate, John Fielding, to investigate the colourful members of Sir William’s family – from terrible old Lady Hodkin to her downtrodden daughter, and from Roger, flamboyant man of fashion to the outrageous twins who share an elaborate past.
| Author | : Deryn Lake |
| Publisher | : Severn House Publishers Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2013-08-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1448300959 |
Summoned to attend a patient in a house near the Romney Marsh, Rawlings does not suspect that he is walking into a web of conspiracy, intrigue and mystery. Until he discovers a body near a deserted church, bearing a coded document. Rawlings reports the case to London’s famous blind magistrate John Fielding who identifies the victim as a French spy master. So Rawlings returns to the marshes to investigate who, among the colourful local characters, could be harbouring politically explosive secrets.
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| Total Pages | : 844 |
| Release | : 1894 |
| Genre | : Electronic journals |
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| Author | : Clifford E. Olstrom |
| Publisher | : eBookIt.com |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2012-07-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0982272197 |
The purpose of this book is to provide concise biographical information about 400 notable blind persons. The people in this volume are but a small sample of many thousands of notable blind persons in history. Most of the information about their lives comes from secondary sources. Where feasible, some of the subject's own words were used.
| Author | : Deryn Lake |
| Publisher | : Severn House Publishers Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2014-12-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1448301335 |
John Rawlings, London's effervescent 18th Century apothecary and occasional sleuth, tackles his most intriguing case to date. The scene was an exact replica of the one that had taken place twenty-four hours earlier. John Rawlings stood in the shop at Apothecaries' Hall buying the herb known as true-love. The only difference was that both he and the shop owner were buzzing with intrigue as they discussed the extraordinary outbreak of food poisoning which had stricken the liverymen who attended dinner at the Worshipful Society the previous day. And how Liveryman Alleyn might have died had John not given him the remedy of true-love. Except the following day Liveryman Alleyn does die. Under the brief and guidance of London's famous blind magistrate, John Fielding Rawlings is asked to investigate wether it is a deliberate case of poisoning. But who would want to poison the apothecaries? And were they targeting the Society or specifically the deceased? As John searches for gossip, he discovers that a fellow apothecary visited the dying man's house on the morning of his death, that the Beadle had fallen out with the Master, that a bereaved parent whose son died as a result of misdiagnosis has vowed vengeance on the entire Society.
| Author | : Nicholas Boys Smith |
| Publisher | : Kings Road Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2022-11-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1789465397 |
'Weaves the wacky, the woeful and the wonderful into an entertaining narrative spiced with lots of London-inspired poetry' - The Times From the medieval cobbles, through Dickensian iron and fog, to the neon lights and bustle of the twenty-first century, the ever-changing streets of London map out the vibrant stories, triumphs and struggles of everyone who ever called London home. From the Roman and Celts marching along the ancient Old Kent Road, to the rattling newspaper presses of Fleet Street, the game of Monopoly has painted London's story across cheerful coloured tiles. But those Monopoly streets live and breathe - they don't just illuminate our history. They open up whole new ways of thinking about it. The mobs have taken to our streets. The overlords have taken them back. Wars have spilled out into them. Lovers have snuck around them, and fires have raged through them. In a city of rags and riches, where folk hero Dick Whittington believed the streets were paved with gold, anything could happen - and everything has. You may think you know the history of London. You don't. Or at least, not entirely. This is the story of the capital as you've never, quite, heard it before.
