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The Cheapside Corpse (Tweleve Dates of Christmas)

The Cheapside Corpse (Tweleve Dates of Christmas)

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 . . .

Country	USA
Author	Susanna Gregory
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780751552812
ISBN	075155281X
Label	Sphere
Manufacturer	Sphere
MPN	9780751552812
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	480
PartNumber	9780751552812
PublicationDate	2015-11-24
Publisher	Sphere
ReleaseDate	2015-11-24
Studio	Sphere

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