num_pages: 192
description: John Rawlings, the apothecary with a talent for detective work, and John Fielding, the phenomenal blind magistrate whose Runners formed London's early police force, make a welcome return in this evocative Georgian mystery. John Rawlings is among the beau monde enjoying a performance of 'The Beggar's Opera' in Drury Lane when the leading actor - the notorious philanderer Jasper Harcross - dramatically falls to his death on stage. As Rawlings and the Blind Beak hunt for vital clues, they discover a hotbed of rivalry both on and off the stage which produces numerous suspects and questions. As the search takes on a new intensity, John Rawlings soon finds himself on an intriguing trail of obsession that leads to the dark heart of a cold-blooded murder.
language: English
title: Death at the Beggar's Opera
titlecomplete: Death at the Beggar's Opera (John Rawlings, #2)
genres: Historical Mystery, British Literature, Historical, Mystery, Fiction, Detective, Historical Fiction, Georgian, Crime
ratings_count: 346
series: John Rawlings
publisher: Back-In-Print Books Ltd