Name: gallows thief
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Author: Bernard Cornwell
ISBN: 9780060082741

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bernard Cornwell

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Language

English

Pages

297

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.6 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN

0060082747

ISBN13

9780060082741

Synopsis "gallows thief"

The year is 1820. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, returns to London to wed his fiancée. But instead of settling down to fame and glory, he finds himself penniless in a country where high unemployment and social unrest rage, and where men--innocent or guilty--are hanged for the merest of crimes.When he's offered a job as private investigator to re-open the case of a painter due to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit, Sandman readily accepts--as much for the money as for a chance to see justice done in a country gone to ruins.Soon, however, he's mired in a grisly murder plot that keeps thickening. Sandman makes his way through gentlemen's clubs and shady taverns, aristocratic mansions, and fashionable painters' studios determined to rescue the innocent young man from the rope. But someone doesn't want the truth revealed.

Bernard Cornwell

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Bernard Cornwell (Londres, 1944) es un prolífico autor británico de novela histórica, famoso por sagas como las de Richard Sharpe (Guerras Napoleónicas) y las "Saxon Stories" (Unificación de Inglaterra), que se publicaron en EE. UU. tras mudarse allí por su esposa americana y no poder trabajar, comenzando a escribir novelas históricas como forma de ganarse la vida legalmente, combinando gran documentación con entretenimiento y dando lugar a adaptaciones televisivas como The Last Kingdom.

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