by Susanna Gregory · Little, Brown UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780751537598
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«Blood on the Strand» is Susanna Gregory's historical mystery novel, published by Little, Brown UK in paperback (464 pages, in English).
In 1663 London, Thomas Chaloner, the king's spy, investigates the shooting of a beggar during a royal procession. The victim was no vagrant: he had ties to the powerful guild of barber-surgeons. Chaloner races against time to find the culprit, protect the Earl of Clarendon from a conspiracy, and save an innocent from the gallows.
Second novel in the series featuring Thomas Chaloner, published on January 24, 2008. The action takes place in London in the spring of 1663.
For readers of historical mystery and fans of Susanna Gregory's detective series, such as the Matthew Bartholomew one.
Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cruwys, a Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner's officer. She writes detective fiction, and is noted for her series of mediaeval mysteries featuring Matthew Bartholomew, a teacher of medicine and investigator of murders in 14th-century Cambridge.
