Death of a Shipbuilder by L.C. Tyler - ISBN: 9781472128539
Paperback
Pepys, bribes, and a murdered shipbuilder: uncovering secrets in high places.

Death of a Shipbuilder

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    2 December 2021

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Summary

“I was seduced from John Grey’s first scene” - Ann Cleeves

John Grey is visited at his London office by Thomas Cade, a shipbuilder, who tells Grey he has evidence that Samuel Pepys is taking substantial bribes in his position at the Naval Office. Grey sends him on his way, telling him he has little chance against such a powerful man as Pepys - and then the following morning Cade’s stabbed body is found in the grounds of Lincoln’s Inn.

Later that day Grey meets…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472128539
ISBN-10:1472128532
Author:L.C. Tyler
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Constable
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:2 December 2021
Weight:221g
Dimensions:196mm x 126mm x 24mm
Series:A John Grey Historical Mystery
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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