The Plague Road
$35.05
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
10 October 2017
Summary
‘Witty and amazing, L. C. Tyler has a wicked sense of humour’ M. C. Beaton
1665, and the Great Plague has London in its grip. Where better, then, to hide a murdered man than among the corpses on their way to the Plague pit?
When a supposed Plague victim is found with a knife in his back, John Grey, now a successful lawyer, is called in to investigate. The dead man was known to be carrying a compromising letter from the Duke of York to the French ambassador. Now the letter has …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472122872 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472122879 |
| Author: | L.C. Tyler |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 10 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 259g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
| Series: | A John Grey Historical Mystery |
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Praise for LC Tyler: [the author] juggles his characters, story wit and clever one liners with perfect balance. author] juggles his characters, story wit and clever one liners with perfect balance. - The Times
A historical thriller, but one written with tongue firmly in cheek … Tyler is a witty writer, and this third outing for Grey is great fun - Sunday TimesTyler at his entertaining best … a Restoration romp delivered with aplomb and verbal artistry, a delicious slice of history in all its dark, dank and deadly reality, and a veritable stage show of witty one-liners wrapped up in an enthralling mystery adventure - Lancashire Evening PostAbout The Author
L.C. Tyler
L. C. Tyler was born in Essex and educated at Jesus College Oxford and City University. His comic crime series featuring author-and-agent duo Ethelred Tressider and Elsie Thirkettle has twice been nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Awards and he won the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award with Herring in the Library. His latest crime series is set in the seventeenth century and features lawyer John Grey.
He has lived and worked all over the world, but has more recently been based in London and Sussex.
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