The Price of Murder ebook

by Bruce Alexander

Bruce Alexander has mastered the uncommon knack of deftly capturing a period-perfect historical time without endangering the liveliness of the story with excessive detail.

Bruce Alexander has mastered the uncommon knack of deftly capturing a period-perfect historical time without endangering the liveliness of the story with excessive detail. History has a thrilling way of hitting home in Bruce Alexander's Georgian mysteries. Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle must be beaming down from literary heaven at Bruce Alexander's splendid series.

The Price of Murder Bruce Alexander has mastered the uncommon knack of deftly capturing a period-perfect historical time without endangering the liveliness of the story with excessive detail.

Alexander’s got it all: a heroic central figure, a setting that both fascinates and appalls, and a gift for concocting plots that weave in and out of social classes. Also, unlike many writers in this genre, who lay on historical details with a trowel, Alexander brings Georgian England alive with facts fitting the acting. Bruce Alexander has mastered the uncommon knack of deftly capturing a period-perfect historical time without endangering the liveliness of the story with excessive detail. Maritime action a la Patrick O’Brian.

Bruce Alexander vents, or locales is entirely.

Bruce Alexander vents, or locales is entirely coincidental. eISBN : 978-0-425-19807-0 BERKLEY® Berkley Prime Crime Books are published by The Berkley Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Putnam In. 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014. MoreLess Show More Show Less.

THE PRICE OF MURDER – VG Bruce Alexander – 10th and final book in series Set in Georgian England, blind magistrate, Sir John Fielding, and his young apprentice Jeremy Proctor investigate the brutal murder of a little girl whose mother had sold her into slavery. The trail leads Jeremy into the world of horse racing, as he joins forces with the victim's uncle, legendary jockey Deuteronomy Plummer.

The Price of Murder is the tenth historical mystery novel about Sir John Fielding by Bruce Alexander (a pseudonym for Bruce Cook). Sir John and Jeremy are drawn deep into the notorious Seven Dials area of London, where they must contend with the most sordid inclinations of both the working class and the aristocracy. A subplot is based on the notorious case of Elizabeth Canning.

Bruce Alexander is the pseudonym for a well-known journalist and author of fiction and nonfiction. Библиографические данные. The Price of Murder Sir John Fielding (Том 10). Автор.

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA. Read online. The Price of Murder sjf-10. Smuggler's Moon sjf-8. John Fielding was famous not only as cofounder of London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, but also as a magistrate of keen intellect, fairness and uncommon detective ability

Электронная книга "The Price of Murder", Bruce Alexander

Электронная книга "The Price of Murder", Bruce Alexander. Эту книгу можно прочитать в Google Play Книгах на компьютере, а также на устройствах Android и iOS. Выделяйте текст, добавляйте закладки и делайте заметки, скачав книгу "The Price of Murder" для чтения в офлайн-режиме.

Experience the dangerous intrigue of Georgian England in this novel in Bruce Alexander's acclaimed historical mystery series featuring Sir John Fielding.When the body of a young girl is pulled from the Thames, blind magistrate Sir John Fielding’s investigation leads his protégé, Jeremy Proctor, into the notorious Seven Dials section of London. There the sordid inclinations of both the working class and aristocracy may be found—and there, Jeremy learns that the girl’s mother has disappeared near the racetrack. As he delves further into the mystery, he will begin to realize just how high the stakes are, and—when an acquaintance of his own suddenly vanishes—just how terribly steep the odds really are.

Cia

After the misstep that was "An Experiment in Treason", this is a return to the safe grounds on which the Sir John Fielding series established its success. A young female murder victim is found floating in the Thames. Another young woman goes missing. And the 18th century English racing scene takes a key role. Jeremy Proctor, befitting his approach to manhood, takes a greater responsibility than ever in sorting out the pieces. Tried and true grounds for Alexander, and he covers it well. It's not an exemplary effort, but it is a worthy complement to the first books in the series.

But that's not to say that the work is without flaws. The resolution of a false accusation is left hanging. The death of the perpetrator is far-fetched. And charade by which Lady Katherine is informed of the pending nuptials is truly unworthy of the author. This was the last book in the series that Alexander completed before his death. Perhaps he was in an understandable rush to complete. But someone should have stepped in to smooth the rough edges.

Very Old Chap

Rather than taking a highly romantic time period, this takes the grubby difficulties of daily city life as it's subject. A really interesting way to learn more and imagine about law at this time.

fr0mTheSkY

Feels like Trollope-era writing in structure but not quite as good. Decent suspense, character development, I might read another in the series someday.

Arilak

Good read if you enjoy a young man's viewpoint. Well written in common English language.

Gavigamand

The blind judge has remarkable insight. You'd swear he could see. Murder and mayhem does not win in his court. Seventeen hundreds London is easy to imagine when Bruce Alexander is at the helm. I feel like I'm standing on the corner waiting for the hackney to take me to the Magdalene Home for Penitent Prostitutes to help reform the girls. It all comes to life in this book and you can enjoy a bit of history.

Xurad

I have been reading the Bruce Alexander mysteries from the beginning. I will be forever grateful to the friend who put me on to them. Those of us who like this kind of thing enjoy the history and historical background which appears to be very accurate. More important, however, are the characters. They are interesting and have acquired real personalities. The plot is finely woven. I find myself reading Bruce Alexander when I really ought to be doing other things. Look out, he's addictive.

greed style

I could not wait till I finished. Very slow moving!

Every book in his series has been well thought out an written. Amazing how well he forms his stories an interesting to hear tidbits about how justice was in the later part of 1700·