num_pages: 308
description: Dick Darwent brooded in a dark cell of Newgate Prison - waiting to be hanged. Lady Caroline Ross, rich, cold and beautiful, prepared a champagne breakfast to celebrate her marriage. How were the fates of these two people intertwined? And how were their lives changed by a shot through a bathroom window, a riot at the opera, a pistol duel at dawn, and a mysterious coachman whose cloak was stained with graveyard mold?John Dickson Carr, master of the detective novel, is also master of the historical mystery. This is a thrilling novel of London in 1815 and the incredible characters that make up its world of fashion, and its underworld.
language: English
title: The Bride of Newgate
titlecomplete: The Bride of Newgate
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Golden Age Mystery, Romance, Historical Mystery, Classics, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 252
publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub