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March 2015
On Sale: March 3, 2015
Featuring: Philip Pimbo; Ephraim Grimshaw; Titus Cragg
ISBN: 125005494X EAN: 9781250054944 Kindle: B00MLM9LE6 Hardcover / e-Book
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Blake continues the series Booklist calls "a solid
winner"
with a darkly rich mystery centered on an apparent
suicide
that leads Cragg and Fidelis down a treacherous path. The year is 1742, and the people of Preston are looking
forward to their ancient once-every-twenty-years festival
of
merriment and excess, the Preston Guild. But the prospect
darkens as the town plunges into a financial crisis
caused
by the death of pawnbroker and would-be banker Philip
Pimbo,
shot behind the locked door of his office. Is it suicide?
Coroner Titus Cragg suspects so, but Dr Luke Fidelis
disagrees. To untangle the truth Cragg must dig out the
secrets of Pimbo's personal life, learn the grim facts of
the African slave trade, search for a missing Civil War
treasure and deal with the machinations of his old enemy
Ephraim Grimshaw, now the town's mayor. Cragg relies once
again on the help and advice of his analytical friend
Fidelis, his astute wife Elizabeth and the contents of a
well-stocked library. As in his previous Cragg and Fidelis stories, Robin Blake
brings a vivid cast of characters to the page in this
third
historical mystery about the dramas that breeds below the
surface of life in a provincial Georgian town.
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