Blood on the strand / Susanna Gregory.
By: Gregory, Susanna.
Material type: BookSeries: The Thomas Chaloner series.London, UK : Sphere , ©2007Description: 457 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780751537598 .Subject(s): Secret service -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688 -- Fiction | Susanna Gregory is a Cambridge academic. She is the creator of the popular Matthew Bartholmew seriesDDC Call Number: FIC | G862b 2008 Summary: "Rebellion is in the air of London in the spring of 1663. Thomas Chaloner, spy for the King's intelligence service, has just returned from thwarting a planned revolt in Dublin, but soon realises that England's capital is no haven of peace. He is ordered to investigate the shooting of a beggar during a royal procession. He soon learns the man is no vagrant, but someone with links to the powerful Company of Barber-Surgeons. He master, the Earl of Clarendon, is locked in a deadly feud with the Earl of Bristol, and an innocent man is about to be hanged in Newgate. Chaloner is embroiled in a desperate race against time to protect Clarendon, to discover the true identity of the beggar's murderer, and to save a blameless man from the executioner's noose."--Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Fiction | APEC Ortigas Extension, Cainta Library Fiction | FIC G862b 2008 (Browse shelf) | Available | B09-0000049 |
"Rebellion is in the air of London in the spring of 1663. Thomas Chaloner, spy for the King's intelligence service, has just returned from thwarting a planned revolt in Dublin, but soon realises that England's capital is no haven of peace. He is ordered to investigate the shooting of a beggar during a royal procession. He soon learns the man is no vagrant, but someone with links to the powerful Company of Barber-Surgeons. He master, the Earl of Clarendon, is locked in a deadly feud with the Earl of Bristol, and an innocent man is about to be hanged in Newgate. Chaloner is embroiled in a desperate race against time to protect Clarendon, to discover the true identity of the beggar's murderer, and to save a blameless man from the executioner's noose."--
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