Suffer the children
Subtitle: a Thomas Potts mystery
By: Sara Fraser
Edition: 1st world ed.
Series: Thomas Potts Mystery -- 4; A Thomas Potts mystery; Thomas Potts Mystery -- 4.
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sutton, Surrey, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780727880352
Subjects: Kidnapping; Police; Constables; Thomas Potts (Fictitious character); History; Fiction
Description: Constable Thomas Potts is called to investigate when a bedraggled girl is found hidden in a barn and the body of a small boy is unearthed nearby, and when both cases seem to be connected to a wagon-load of children kidnapped from the Poorhouse, Thomas knows he must uncover the true fate of the children.
Table of contents: title: A raving, bedraggled girl is found sheltering in a barn near the Parish of Tardebigge in Worcestershire. Then the decomposing body of a small boy is unearthed by poachers in a nearby wood. Both cases appear to be connected to a wagonload of children known to have been abducted from the Poorhouse. Constable Thomas Potts; title: torn between troubles in his personal life and his determination to discover the fates of the poor abused children; title: reluctantly takes up the gruesome and dangerous case.