The Cheapside Corpse The Tenth Thomas Chaloner Adventure

Binding: Paperback
Description: Another excellent historical adventure from Susanna Gregory featuring 17th - century spy Thomas Chaloner - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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
Title: The Cheapside Corpse The Tenth Thomas Chaloner Adventure
Author(s): Gregory Susanna
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9780751552812
Pages: 480 Pages
Publication Date: 11/24/2015
Series: Adventures of Thomas Chaloner
Category: Historical Mysteries