A Well-Earned Death
$25.29
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2024
Summary
“How can you lose money growing a crop everyone wants with labour that costs next to nothing?”
In the 1670s there are fortunes to be made in Barbados, owning slaves and planting sugar cane. But drought, floods, locusts and his own incompetence have brought Hubert Umfraville down and caused him to flee the island in the most humiliating fashion. Now back in England, he hopes to restore his fortunes through extortion. In Barbados he has discovered a secret that people here may pay him t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781408718728 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1408718723 |
| Author: | L.C. Tyler |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 26mm |
| Series: | A John Grey Historical Mystery |
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About The Author
L.C. Tyler
L. C. Tyler was born in Essex and educated at Jesus College Oxford and City University. His comic crime series featuring author-and-agent duo Ethelred Tressider and Elsie Thirkettle has twice been nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Awards and he won the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award with Herring in the Library. His latest crime series is set in the seventeenth century and features lawyer John Grey.
He has lived and worked all over the world, but has more recently been based in London and Sussex.
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