Gallows Thief
by Bernard Cornwell | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0060082739 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0060082739 Global Overview for this book
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From Cornwell's site:
"Gallows Thief is a detective story, set in Regency London, a time when there were no detectives as such. There was a very busy gallows, however. This was a period when the English and Welsh gallows were at their busiest and, very occasionally, the government appointed an ‘Investigator’ to look into a conviction. That Investigator is my hero and detective, a man who was an army officer, but who, since the battle of Waterloo (it had to get in somehow) has fallen on hard times."
"Gallows Thief is a detective story, set in Regency London, a time when there were no detectives as such. There was a very busy gallows, however. This was a period when the English and Welsh gallows were at their busiest and, very occasionally, the government appointed an ‘Investigator’ to look into a conviction. That Investigator is my hero and detective, a man who was an army officer, but who, since the battle of Waterloo (it had to get in somehow) has fallen on hard times."
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A war of destruction in the field,
mirrors the war of destruction
on some many lives back home.
mirrors the war of destruction
on some many lives back home.
