The Cheapside corpse

Gregory, Susanna

The Cheapside corpse - Sphere 2015 - 480 pages - A Thomas Chaloner Adventure 10 .

London in the spring of 1665 is a city full of fear. There is plague in the stews of St Giles, the Dutch fleet is preparing to invade, and a banking crisis threatens to leave Charles II's government with no means of paying for the nation's defence. Amid the tension, Thomas Chaloner is ordered to investigate the murder of Dick Wheler, one of the few goldsmith-bankers to have survived the losses that have driven others to bankruptcy - or worse. At the same time, a French spy staggers across the city, carrying the plague from one pa

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Chaloner, Thomas (Fictitious character)--Fiction
Secret service--England--London--Fiction


London (England)--History--17th century--Fiction