TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gregory,Susanna
TI  - The Cheapside corpse
T2  - A Thomas Chaloner Adventure
SN  - 9780751552805
PY  - 2015///
PB  - Sphere
KW  - Chaloner, Thomas (Fictitious character)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Secret service
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - London (England)
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
N2  - 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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