Summary
1743, and the tanners of Preston are a pariah community, plying their unwholesome trade beside a stretch of riverside marsh where many Prestonians by ancient right graze their livestock. When the body of a newborn child is found in one of their tanning pits, Cragg’s enquiry falls foul of a cabal of merchants, dead set on modernising the town’s economy and regarding the despised tanners - and Cragg’s apparent championship of them - as obstacles to their plan. The murder of a baby is just the e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472122605 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472122607 |
| Author: | Robin Blake |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 10 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 472g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 158mm x 29mm |
| Series: | Cragg & Fidelis |
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This is rollicking stuff. Cragg and Fidelis are an engaging duo, and their first investigation is like crossing Robert Louis Stevenson with The Archers
This is rollicking stuff. Cragg and Fidelis are an engaging duo, and their first investigation is like crossing Robert Louis Stevenson with The Archers - Financial Times
Cragg’s first-person narrative voice is nicely judged: historically informed and reticent in the right proportions. Robin Blake’s crisply written mystery offers all the pleasures of a classic detective novel and introduces the reader to an appealing new historical sleuth - TLSFascinating … Blake’s knowledge of an eighteenth-century backwater just shaking off medieval superstitions is deep and engaging - Booklist, starred reviewAbout The Author
Robin Blake
Robin Blake is a novelist, art critic and acclaimed biographer of Anthony Van Dyck and George Stubbs. Born and brought up in Preston, he has lived for many years in London.
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