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The Cheapside Corpse (Exploits of Thomas Chaloner) - Hardcover

Book 10 of 15: Thomas Chaloner

Gregory, Susanna

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9780751552805: The Cheapside Corpse (Exploits of Thomas Chaloner)
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ISBN 10: 0751552801 ISBN 13: 9780751552805
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, 2015

Synopsis

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 streets 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 defense. 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 thwarts 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.

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About the Author

Susanna Gregory is a Cambridge academic and the author of the Thomas Chaloner series.

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Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0751552801
ISBN 13 
9780751552805
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
448
Rating
  • 4.16 out of 5 stars
    510 ratings by Goodreads