The Cheapside Corpse
Author(s): Susanna Gregory
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 ...
General Information
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- : Little, Brown Book Group
- : Sphere
- : 0.334
- : 01 September 2015
- : 200mm X 134mm X 32mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2015
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Susanna Gregory
- : Paperback
- : 823.92
- : 480
- : FFH
More About The Product
"Brilliantly evokes 1663 London . . . Gregory salts the plot with several tantalizing subsidiary puzzles." "Publishers Weekly "starred review of "The Butcher of Smithfield""
Susanna Gregory was a police officer in Leeds before taking up an academic career. She has served as an environmental consultant during seventeen field seasons in the polar regions, and has taught comparative anatomy and biological anthropology. She is the creator of the Matthew Bartholomew series of mysteries set in medieval Cambridge and the Thomas Chaloner adventures in Restoration London, and now lives in Wales with her husband, who is also a writer.