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The Printer's Coffin: The Blake and Avery Mystery Series (Book 2): The Blake and Avery Mystery Series, cartea 2

Autor M. J. Carter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2016
For lovers of Sherlock, Shardlake and Ripper Street. A hugely enjoyable action-packed Victorian thriller with a great detective double act.

'Delicious Stuff.'Financial Times


Published in hardback asThe Infidel Stain.

London, 1841. Mr Jeremiah Blake and Captain William Avery, recently returned from India, are invited by Viscount Allington to examine the particulars of a grisly pair of murders. Two printers from the seditious gutter presses have been brutally dispatched in distinct but similar circumstances. Fearing the deaths will stoke the fires of Chartism sweeping the capital, Allington hopes Blake and Avery's determination to uncover the truth will solve these crimes and help restore civic order. But there are others who seem equally determined that the pair shall fail . . .
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241966624
ISBN-10: 0241966620
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria The Blake and Avery Mystery Series

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

M. J. Carter is a former journalist and the author of the Blake and Avery series:The Strangler Vine,The Printer's Coffin(formerly published asThe Infidel Stain) andThe Devil's Feast, and two acclaimed works of non-fiction:Anthony Blunt: His LivesandThe Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empiresand the Road to World War One. M. J. Carter is married with two sons and lives in London.

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Vividly realised...the second outing for [Blake and Avery] is even more fun, with the same blend of derring-do and elegant writing. ..Delicious stuff.
Witty and unfailingly readable...its contemporary resonance [is] all the more effective for being implicit.
An entertaining stew of blackmail, murder, cross-dressing and incomprehensible slang ... like Dickens, Carter's righteous anger at Victorian hypocrisy does not prevent her from revelling in it with infectious glee.
While the relationship between the dynamic duo Blake and Avery evolves in a nuanced, tender way the real star of the show in this complex, clever novel is London itself.
The Strangler Vinewas a promising and enjoyable debut - plenty of action, rich in historical detail, all crowned with a very clever twist. Carter has proved withThe Infidel Stainthat it was not a one-off.
If this series is not bought for film, it would be another mark of the corporate stupidity that lost the BBC Ripper Street. It is, however, far more pleasurable and impressive to read.
Vivid...done with brio.
A sinister tale involving political revolution, printers and porn, The Infidel Stain drips with period atmosphere.
Compelling... Carter's book is historical crime fiction at its best.