A Plague of Angels
by:
P.F. Chisholm (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780340671627 (0340671629)
Publish date: 1998
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Pages no: 287
Edition language: English
Series: Sir Robert Carey (#4)
Reads a bit like a checklist of what is normally not found in historical fiction. Gritty, nasty and just plain convoluted. Along with spying and an appearance from Shakespeare this seems to be trying a bit to hard to be something for everyone and yet failed me. Possibly it's because I came on thi...
You could always tell when you were near a town from the bodies hanging on the gibbets by the main road, thought Sergeant Dodd.Hot Damn but I wished I had bought the first in this series rather than being a cheapskate git and opting for the fourth 'cos it only cost one penny. My reasoning was that I...
In this installment Sir Robert is called home to London by his father to search for his missing brother, who has perhaps fallen with bad company, and must be searched for amidst a nest of players, including that weedy little balding guy, Shakespeare and an annoyingly arrogant atheistical Marlow who ...
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