The last days of Newgate
By: by Andrew Pepper
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9781846321474
Subjects: False imprisonment; Fiction; Murder; Investigation; History; Politics and government
Description: St Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered. Pyke, sometime Bow Street Runner, sometime crook, finds himself accidentally embroiled in the murder investigation but quickly realises that he has stumbled into something more sinister and far-reaching. In his pursuit of the murderer, Pyke ruffles the feathers of some powerful people, and, falsely accused of murder himself, he soon faces a death sentence, and the gallows of Old Bailey. Imprisoned, and with only his uncle and the headstrong, aristocratic daughter of his greatest enemy who believe in him, Pyke must engineer his escape, find the real killer and untangle the web of politics that has been spun around him.
Notes: Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006.