London in the 18th century is one of the most dangerous cities in the world, a status helped along by the lack of any organized police force. Peacekeeping falls on the shoulders of parish watchmen like George Man, who stumbles on the emaciated corpse...
October 1727. Thrown out of the Parish Watch after an altercation with a corrupt but powerful man, George Man is glad to be offered a job guarding tobacco merchant Abraham Sinclair¹s son, whose imminent murder has been mysteriously prophesied in an ...
Crime in all its devious incarnations is presented in this treat of murderous morsels dished out by old ppros and promising newcomers. Artfully crafted and impossible to put down, each story bountifully demooonstrates why these authors are la creme d...
After 27 years of nightly patrolling its seedy and menacing streets, George Man has seen all the horrors that 18th-century London has to offer. But even he is sickened when the emaciated corpse of Geoffrey Stannard is found lashed to a chair in an ab...
A housewife in postwar England gets a letter that upends her life in this “enormously satisfying” novel (Elizabeth Berg, author of The Story of Arthur Truluv). In 1948, just after Gandhi’s assassination, Martha Houghton receives a letter...