- Hardcover: 512 pages
- Publisher: Sphere (Jan 24 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1847440622
- ISBN-13: 978-1847440624
- Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 15.1 x 4.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 640 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #777,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Gregory brilliantly evokes 1663 London in her brisk third mystery to feature spy Thomas Chaloner (after 2007's Blood on the Strand). On returning to England after a perilous mission on the Iberian peninsula, Chaloner finds himself out of favor with his mercurial employer, the earl of Clarendon, England's Lord Chancellor. He gets a chance to return to the earl's good graces if he can solve the peculiar death of Thomas Newburne, a solicitor and newsman who died after eating a cucumber. Chaloner soon learns that others have recently perished after a similar meal. His inquiries into the murky world of journalism and propaganda bring him into conflict with the Butcher of Smithfield, a shadowy thug and associate of Newburne's. Gregory salts the plot with several tantalizing subsidiary puzzles, and has impressively integrated into the story line not only historical figures but debates about the content of the period's newsletters and newsbooks. (Sept.)
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"A mine of historical information." —Kirkus Reviews
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3rd in the Thomas Chaloner Series, Feb 2 2009
By S. Schwartz "romonko" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Butcher of Smithfield (Paperback)
I love Ms. Gregory's long-running Matthew Bartholomew series, and this is a new series that she has begun. It is set in Restoration England, and there aren't a lot of fiction books set in this era. This book was set in the fall of 1663. Oliver Cromwell has been removed and executed and Prince Charles II has resumed his throne and been on it for about three years when the book was set. Chaloner is a spy. He actually worked for Cromwell's henchmen, but when the Restoration came, he switched allegiance to Royalists. I love the setting for these books, and I love the stories. Ms. Gregory mixes real historical people with her fictional ones, and everything is so authentic. In this book Thomas has recently returned London after a dangerous four month mission in Spain and Portugal. His patron has asked him to prove that a rather unsavoury lawyer was murdered. The cause of death was ruled as "death by cucumbers". Thomas finds himself in the middle of a number of these kinds of death, and he has to try to unravel what is going on. This is a great medieval page-turner.
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