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Book, 2010
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Book, 2010
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While Harry Lytle and his sidekick Dowling the Butcher investigate the grisly murder of the Earl of St. Albans, they thwart plots on their lives as subsequent murders follow and the Black Plague wreaks havoc on 1665 London. It's July 1665. The great plague rages rampant outside London's city walls. Harry Lytle makes a welcome return after his trials and tribulations in The Sweet Smell of Decay to investigate the murder of the Earl of St Albans. A grisly dinner-table death starts Harry off on the trail. Loveable rogue Harry Lytle returns for further escapades in this hugely entertaining combination of intrigue, humor, and historical authenticity In July 1665, the great plague rages rampant outside London’s city walls. Harry reckons he is safest from the plague sitting tight behind the city walls?until Nathaniel Hedges drops dead on the other side of the dinner table. As the pestilence exerts an ever stronger grip on the city population, so Harry is compelled to venture forth into some of the most diseased parishes of London in search of a serial killer, and it’s not long before his familiar accomplice, Dowling the butcher, joins him on the case. When the companions of the first victim decide that Harry is the prime suspect, death seems inevitable.
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