num_pages: 240
description:  A dead man at a crossroads. A secret message. A ring with a warning about death . . . Printer's apprentice Lucy Campion is caught up in a strange and puzzling murder case in this twisty historical mystery set in seventeenth-century London. London 1667. On her way to a new market to peddle her True Accounts and Strange News printer's apprentice Lucy Campion quickly regrets her decision to take the northwestern road. Dark and desolate the path leads her to the crossroads - and to the old hanging tree. She doesn't believe in ghosts but she's not sure ghosts don't believe in her. But before she even reaches the crossroads she's knocked off her feet by two men in a hurry. What were they running from? To her dismay she soon discovers for herself: there dangling from the tree is the body of a man. Did he commit self-murder or is there something darker afoot? The more Lucy learns the more determined she is to uncover the truth. But this time even the help and protection of magistrate's son Adam and steadfast Constable Duncan may not be enough to keep her safe from harm . . .
language: English
title: The Sign of the Gallows
publisher: Severn House