num_pages: 514
description: Rider Sandman, a hero at Waterloo, returns home to a country where both corruption and social unrest run rampant, and where "justice" is most often delivered—to those whose primary crime is poverty—at the end of a hangman's noose.Penniless, Sandman accepts a job investigating the case of a painter due to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit. In a race against the clock, Sandman moves from the hellish bowels of Newgate prison to the perfumed drawing rooms of the aristocracy—and in the process begins to peel back the layers of an utterly corrupt penal system that pits him against the wealthiest and most ruthless men in Regency England.
language: English
title: Gallows Thief
titlecomplete: Gallows Thief
characters: Charles Corday, Reverend Lord Alexander Pleydell, Meg, Sir George Phillips, Sally Hood, Lord Sidmouth, Rider Sandman
genres: Mystery, Fiction, 19th Century, Regency, British Literature, Crime, Historical, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Historical Mystery
ratings_count: 6941
places: London, England
publisher: Thorndike Pr