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Intrigue in Covent Garden - The Thirteenth Thomas Chaloner Adventure by Susanna Gregory
Category: Fiction | Series: Adventures of Thomas Chaloner Ser.
By January 1666, the plague has almost disappeared from London, leaving its surviving population diminished and in poverty. The resentment against those who had fled to the country turns to outrage as the court and its followers return, their licentiousness undiminished. The death of a well-connected ph ...Show more
Murder on High Holborn by Susanna Gregory
Category: Fiction | Series: Adventures of Thomas Chaloner Ser.
In 1665 England is facing war with the Dutch and the capital is awash with rumours of conspiracy and sedition. As an experienced investigator, Thomas Chaloner knows that there are very few grains of truth in the shifting sands of the rumour-mill, but the murder of Paul Ferine, a Groom of the Robes, in a ...Show more
The Chelsea Strangler: The Eleventh Thomas Chaloner Adventure by Susanna Gregory
Category: No Category | Series: Adventures of Thomas Chaloner Ser.
The eleventh historical adventure from Susanna Gregory featuring 17th-century spy Thomas Chaloner In the sapping summer heat of 1665 there is little celebration in London of the naval victory at the Battle of Lowestoft. The King, his retinue and anyone with sufficient means has fled the plague-ridden c ...Show more
The Clerkenwell Affair by Susanna Gregory
Category: Fiction | Series: Adventures of Thomas Chaloner Ser.
In the spring of 1666 everyone's first reaction to a sudden death at the palace of White Hall is that the plague has struck, but the killing of Thomas Chiffinch was by design, not disease. Chiffinch was holder of two influential posts - Keeper of the Closet and Keeper of the Jewels - and rival courtiers ...Show more
The Piccadilly Plot by Susanna Gregory
Category: Fiction | Series: Adventures of Thomas Chaloner Ser.
Thomas Chaloner is relieved to be summoned back to London. His master, the Earl of Clarendon, has sent him to Tangier to investigate a case of corruption. Chaloner will be glad to be home, to be reunited with his new wife, but the trivial reason for his recall exasperates him - the theft of material fro ...Show more
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