The invention of fire
By: Bruce Holsinger
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780007493364
Subjects: Fiction; Murder; Investigation; History
Description: London, 1386: young King Richard II faces the double threat of a French invasion and growing unrest amongst his barons - and now there's evil afoot in the City. Sixteen corpses have been discovered in a sewer, their wounds like none ever seen before. One thing is clear: whoever threw the bodies into the sewer knew they would be found - and was powerful enough not to care. Enter John Gower, poet and intellectual whose 'peculiar vocation' is dealing in men's secrets. Against the backdrop of medieval London with its grand palaces and churches, dark alleys and mean backstreets, Gower pursues his dangerous quarry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.