John Rawlings, the apothecary with a talent for detective work, and John Fielding, the phenomenal blind magistrate whose Runners formed London's early police force, make a welcome return in this evocative Georgian mystery. John Rawlings is among the beau monde enjoying a performance of 'The Beggar's Opera' in Drury Lane when the leading actor - the notorious philanderer Jasper Harcross - dramatically falls to his death on stage. As Rawlings and the Blind Beak hunt for vital clues, they discover a hotbed of rivalry both on and off the stage which produces numerous suspects and questions. As the search takes on a new intensity, John Rawlings soon finds himself on an intriguing trail of obsession that leads to the dark heart of a cold-blooded murder.

Death at The Beggar's Opera (John Rawlings Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Deryn Lake

Mystery

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Literature & Fiction

Wendy Perriam

Contemporary

Born of Woman

Secret Communications

Engineering & Transportation

Harry Beckhough

Engineering

John Rawlings, the exuberant young apothecary, is celebrating in The Devil's Tavern, a popular if notorious haunt for sailors and smugglers. Stumbling across a corpse that has been fished out of the Thames, he identifies it as Sir William Hartfield, the bridegroom who had failed to show at his own wedding earlier that day. As the drowning reveals itself as murder, Rawlings is called upon by London's revered sightless magistrate, John Fielding, to investigate the colourful members of Sir William's family - from terrible old Lady Hodkin to her downtrodden daughter, and from Roger, flamboyant man of fashion to the outrageous twins who share an elaborate past.

Death at The Devil's Tavern

Summoned to attend a patient in a house near the lonely Romney Marsh, Rawlings does not suspect that he is walking into a web of conspiracy, intrigue and mystery. Until he discovers a body near a deserted church, bearing a coded document. Rawlings reports the case to London's famous blind magistrate John Fielding who identifies the victim as a French spy master. So Rawlings returns to the marshes to investigate who, amongst the colourful local characters, could be harbouring politically explosive secrets...

Death on the Romney Marsh

Deadline Shortly after eleven o'clock that evening St John Derby, the editor of the Samuel Pepys column of the DAILY GLOBE, had lurched into his office, poured himself a drink and rung the nightwatchman for a cab. When Albert came up to tell him that the taxi was downstairs, he found the reveller slumped across the blotter. He attempted to shake St John into motion. But St John Derby was not just drunk. He was, of course, extremely dead... Let Sleeping Dogs Die The kennelmaid, walking briskly down the path, noticed a sleek black shape stretched out at the corner of one of the enclosures. Instantly she knew that it was the champion of Three Corners, the son of Champion Whately Winner and Champion Connemara Cutie, and the finest dog ever bred in Alisa Potts' kennels. A few seconds later she was inside the cage, kneeling beside him. He was, of course, extremely dead...

Deadline & Let Sleeping Dogs Die; Omnibus two

TIM HEALD

Short Stories & Anthologies

Fisher College at Cambridge lies between St John's and Trinity Colleges, a fact which may escape those who visit Cambridge trusting only to the official guide books and seeing no more than a gap of twenty feet between those two great houses of learning. Here one morning the bedmakers and gyps, clamouring for admission on the last day of term awere admitted to find, lying across their path, the body of one of the College porters. The murder of the porter begins a mystery which is deepend when it is found that the unpopular Dean of the college is missing. The search for the murderer is conducted in part by the police and partly by the Vice-President of Fisher College Sir Richard Cherrington, an eminent but slightly eccentric archaeologist with a penchant for amateur detection. The Cambridge Murders is a story of murder at high table, of death and detection amid good living and scholarship.

The Cambridge Murders

DANIEL, GLYN

Cast, in Order of Disappearance & So Much Blood: Charles Paris Mysteries Vol 1 (A Charles Paris Mystery)

Simon, Brett

Having just finished his indentures, Rawlings is celebrating at Vaux Hall Pleasure Gardens when he trips over the body of a young girl. Summoned to the magistrate's office as prime suspect, Rawlings not only clears his own name but impresses Fielding so much with his powers of recollection that he is asked to investigate the crime. From gaming hell to fashionable house, Rawlings follows a trail of lustful liaisons and illicit intrigue which prove beyond a shadow of doubt that the girl has quite a past . a past filled with threatening secrets.

Death in the Dark Walk

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