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Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Lancashire, England, 1740. A grim discovery has been made: a squire's wife, Dolores Brockletower, lies in the woods above her home at Garlick Hall, her throat brutally slashed. Called to the scene, Coroner Titus Cragg finds the Brockletower household awash with rumor and suspicion. He enlists the help of his astute young friend, doctor Luke Fidelis, to throw light on the case.
2) Dark waters
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Preston, England, 1741. The drowning of drunken publican Antony Egan is no surprise -- even if it comes as an unpleasant shock to coroner Titus Cragg, whose wife was the old man's niece. But Cragg does his duty to the letter, and the inquest's verdict is accidental death. Meanwhile the town is rife with rumors and factions, as the general election is only a week away and the two local seats are to be contested by four rival candidates. But Cragg's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1743, and the tanners of Preston are a pariah community, plying their unwholesome trade beside a stretch of riverside marsh where many Prestonians by ancient right graze their livestock. When the body of a newborn child is found in one of their tanning pits, Cragg's inquiry falls foul of a cabal of merchants dead set on modernizing the town's economy and regarding the despised tanners--and Cragg's apparent championship of them--as obstacles...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Titus Cragg and his friend Luke Fidelis investigate macabre goings-on in a remote Lancashire village in this intriguing 18th century mystery. It's the sweltering summer of 1744 and when an epidemic disease threatens the town, coroner Titus Cragg retires with his wife and baby son to a remote village in East Lancashire, where he hopes his family will enjoy the healthy and tranquil air. But Cragg finds the rural atmosphere anything but peaceful when...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Blake continues the series Booklist calls "a solid winner" with a darkly rich mystery centered on an apparent suicide that leads Cragg and Fidelis down a treacherous path.The year is 1742, and the people of Preston are looking forward to their ancient once-every-twenty-years festival of merriment and excess, the Preston Guild. But the prospect darkens as the town plunges into a financial crisis caused by the death of pawnbroker and would-be banker...
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