Sergeant Verity and the Blood Royal
$39.27
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2013
Summary
William Clarence Verity, Sergeant in ‘A’ Division of the Metropolitan Police, has seen most of the horrors of the nineteenth century, from the stews of Seven Dials to the prisons of the maharajahs. Now he is sent to the United States, to a nation on the brink of civil war, to guard two of his country’s most precious possessions: her good name, and the heir to the throne.
Both are threatened by Verney Dacre, thought to have died in the aftermath of the Great Train Robbery of 1857,…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471904257 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1471904253 |
| Author: | Francis Selwyn |
| Publisher: | The Murder Room |
| Imprint: | The Murder Room |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 41g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
| Series: | Murder Room |
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About The Author
Francis Selwyn
Francis Selwyn (a pen name of Donald Thomas) was born in Somerset and educated at Queen’s College, Taunton, and Balliol College, Oxford. He holds a personal chair in the University of Wales, Cardiff, now Cardiff University. His numerous crime novels include two collections of Sherlock Holmes stories and a hugely successful historical detective series written under the pen name Francis Selwyn and featuring Sergeant Verity of Scotland Yard, as well as gritty police procedurals written under the name of Richard Dacre. He is also the author of seven biographies and a number of other non-fiction works, and won the Gregory Prize for his poems, Points of Contact. He lives in Bath with his wife.
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