La conjura
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788425339387 (8425339383)
Publish date: May 31st 2005
Publisher: Grijalbo Mondadori Sa
Pages no: 432
Edition language: Spanish
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Detective,
Jewish,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
18th Century
Series: Benjamin Weaver (#2)
New Review! A SPECTACLE OF CORRUPTION, second Benjamin Weaver mystery. http://tinyurl.com/oh94chn What a great title for a thriller about politics in 1720s London. Cracking good story, 4 stars for this English Diogenes.
What I liked:The main character – nothing changed here. We deal here with a very likeable rouge but if you take into account the times he lived in and his underprivileged position within the English society you might judge him even less harshly. Of course Benjamin is hardly a saint - it makes him as...
A Spectacle of Corruption is the second memoir of ex-pugilist and private investigator, Benjamin Weaver. After a blatantly rigged trial, framing him for the murder of a man he scarcely knew, Weaver finds himself convicted of murder and sentenced to death by hanging. What follows is a harrowing esc...