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Also by Robin Blake:

Spoiler's Prey, October 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Death and the Chevalier, April 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Skin and Bone, November 2016
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The Hidden Man, March 2015
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Dark Waters, August 2013
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A Dark Anatomy, June 2013
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The Hidden Man
Robin Blake

Minotaur Books
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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Mystery Historical

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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