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1) Rough music
Author
Series
Preston novels volume 5
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
2) Dark waters
Author
Series
Preston novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the drowning death of his wife's uncle against a backdrop of a contentious election, eighteenth-century coroner Titus Cragg receives information that suggests foul play, a situation that is complicated by the demise of a politically connected farmer.
Author
Series
Preston novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Lancashire, England, 1740. A grim discovery has been made: a squire's wife, Dolores Brockletower, lies in the woods above her home at Garlick Hall, her throat brutally slashed. Called to the scene, Coroner Titus Cragg finds the Brockletower household awash with rumor and suspicion. He enlists the help of his astute young friend, doctor Luke Fidelis, to throw light on the case.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1742, and the people of Preston are looking forward to their ancient once-every-twenty-years festival of merriment and excess, the Preston Guild. But the prospect darkens as the town plunges into a financial crisis caused by the death of pawnbroker and would-be banker Philip Pimbo, shot behind the locked door of his office. Is it suicide? Coroner Titus Cragg suspects so, but Dr Luke Fidelis disagrees. To untangle the truth Cragg must...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1743, and the tanners of Preston are a pariah community, plying their unwholesome trade beside a stretch of riverside marsh where many Prestonians by ancient right graze their livestock. When the body of a newborn child is found in one of their tanning pits, Cragg's inquiry falls foul of a cabal of merchants dead set on modernizing the town's economy and regarding the despised tanners--and Cragg's apparent championship of them--as obstacles...
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