Gallows Thief
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: May 10, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780060082741
First sentence: SIR HENRY FORREST, banker and alderman of the City of London, almost gagged when he entered the Press Yard, for the smell was terrible, worse than the reek of the sewer outflows where the Fleet Ditch oozed into the Thames.