Fire (John Grey, 4) - Softcover

Tyler, L.C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631942913 ISBN 13: 9781631942914

Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press, 2023

Synopsis

London is smoking hot, and not in a good way.

It’s the Autumn of 1666, and the Great Fire is still burning, the ashes of hundreds of houses and shops and St. Paul’s Cathedral choking the air. The people, too, are choking, raging at the French, the Dutch, at the foreigners who—they are certain—lit the torch. Lord Arlington, the Secretary of State, might conceivably be interested in harnessing this anger: It can be so useful, at times, to have the population united in loathing of a common enemy.

But this is not one of those times. And inconveniently, a Frenchman—clearly an insane Frenchman—has confessed to setting the fire. He did it with an accomplice, he says. And he subsequently killed the accomplice. It’s all most irritating for Arlington, or it would be if he didn’t have John Grey on call. Go poke around the smoldering ruins, Arlington says. Find me a convenient fall guy. Make this problem go away.

About this title

About the Author

Len Tyler is an award-winning British mystery writer, author of a contemporary funny mystery series about a hapless mystery writer and his nosy agent, and a historical mystery series set during Oliver Cromwell's rule. L.C. Tyler was educated at Oxford, and has lived in Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Denmark, and Norway; he currently lives in London. The first two novels in his Elsie and Ethelred series, The Herring Seller’s Apprentice and Ten Little Herrings, were both nominated for Edgar Awards. Fire is the fourth John Grey historical mystery by L.C. Tyler.

Edition details

• Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1631942913
• ISBN 13: 9781631942914
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304