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Author Gregory, Susanna, 1958- author.

Title The Clerkenwell affair / Susanna Gregory.

Publication Info. London : Sphere, 2020.

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  M GREGORY, S.    Check Shelf
Description 456 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Adventures of Thomas Chaloner ; 14
Gregory, Susanna, 1958- Chaloner ; 14.
Summary "In the spring of 1666 everyone's first reaction to a sudden death at the palace of White Hall is that the plague has struck, but the killing of Thomas Chiffinch was by design, not disease. Chiffinch was holder of two influential posts - Keeper of the Closet and Keeper of the Jewels - and rival courtiers have made no secret of their wish to succeed to those offices. To Thomas Chaloner, ordered to undertake the investigation, such avarice gives a whole host of suspects an ample motive for murder. The same courtiers are at the heart of the royal entourage endorsing the King's licentious and ribald way of life, and Chaloner has some sympathy with the atmosphere of outrage and disgust at such behaviour. London's citizens, already irked by the wealthy fleeing to the country at the outbreak of the plague, have scant patience with the Court on its return. The city is abuzz with rumours of dissent and rebellion, fuelled by predictions from a soothsayer in Clerkenwell of a rain of fire destroying the capital on Good Friday. Chaloner initially dismisses such talk as nonsense, but as he uncovers ever more connections to Clerkenwell among his suspects, he begins to fear that there is also design behind the rumours - and that, come Easter Day, the King and his Court might find themselves the focus of yet another rebellion."--Publisher description.
Subject Chaloner, Thomas (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Secret service -- England -- London -- Fiction.
Murder -- England -- London -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Courts and courtiers -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation. (OCoLC)fst01029788
Courts and courtiers. (OCoLC)fst00881829
Chaloner, Thomas (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst01747564
Secret service. (OCoLC)fst01110661
England -- London. (OCoLC)fst01204271
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
Detective and mystery fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726581
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Other Form: ebook version : 9780751562729
ISBN 9780751562736 (hardback)
0751562734 (hardback)
9780751562729 (ePub ebook)
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