The Cheapside Corpse

by Susanna Gregory

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0751552801
• ISBN13: 9780751552805
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Sphere
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.8" x 8.8"