In the autumn of 1703, a great gale ripped through London. Many were killed, among them Joan Fletcher, the shrewish wife of Alan Fletcher, an ironmonger. But the savage blow that split her head points to more suspicious circumstances. Surreptitiously, George Man, a young parish watchman, trails the ironmonger through the dangerous back streets while the storm rages on. And as Fletcher¹s secret life emerges, a web of intrigue is uncovered, stretching from the brothels of Westminster to a brickworks owned by Daniel Defoe—who Man realizes holds the key to the murder, if only he can be found.
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In this spellbinding, superbly-written trio of murder mysteries, Keith Heller follows the career of George Man, a parish watchman in 18th-century London ‹ then among the seamiest, most dangerous cities in the world. As Man works the watch, patrolling its fetid slums and treacherous back streets, he opens the door to an underworld of thieves and prostitutes, white slavers and murders.
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- PublisherHeadline Book Pub Ltd
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0747256845
- ISBN 13 9780747256847
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages218
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