The devil's mask
By: Christopher Wakling
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780753189320; 9780753189337
Subjects: Docks; Merchants; Fiction; Slave trade; History
Description: "Regency Bristol. Meet Inigo Bright, young lawyer and artist, working in Bristol after the abolition of the slave trade. At odds with his wealthy merchant family and engaged to a girl he no longer loves, Inigo's dissatisfaction is complete when his boss, Adam Carthy, instructs him to investigate records of import duties for the newly formed Dock Company. But the detail is in the devil's mask. Inigo's search leads him to The Belsize, a ship newly returned from the Indies, laden with rum, sugar, tobacco - and a chilling secret. Suddenly those in the city whose interests the secret protects move savagely to keep the truth hidden, at all costs"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: London : Faber, 2011.
Table of contents: title: An atmospheric historical mystery set in regency Bristol. Meet Inigo Bright, young lawyer and artist, working in Bristol after the abolition of the slave trade. At odds with his wealthy merchant family and engaged to a girl he no longer loves, Inigo's dissatisfaction is complete when his boss, Adam Carthy, instructs him to investigate records of import duties for the newly formed Dock Company. But the detail is in the devil's mask. Inigo's search leads him to The Belsize, a ship newly returned from the Indies, laden with rum, sugar, tobacco; title: and a chilling secret. Suddenly those in the city whose interests the secret protects move savagely to keep the truth hidden, at all costs.