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Skin and Bone
Robin Blake
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Description for Skin and Bone
Paperback. The fourth book in the Cragg & Fidelis historical crime series, from a master of the genre. Series: Cragg & Fidelis. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 map required for endpapers to be done by cartographer Hemesh Alles. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 30. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 enquiry falls foul of a cabal of merchants, dead set on modernising the town's economy and regarding the despised tanners - and Cragg's apparent championship of them - as obstacles to their plan. The murder of a baby is just the evidence they need to get rid of the tanners once and for ... Read more
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 enquiry falls foul of a cabal of merchants, dead set on modernising the town's economy and regarding the despised tanners - and Cragg's apparent championship of them - as obstacles to their plan. The murder of a baby is just the evidence they need to get rid of the tanners once and for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Series
Cragg & Fidelis
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472122605
SKU
V9781472122605
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About Robin Blake
Robin Blake is a novelist, art critic and acclaimed biographer of Anthony Van Dyck and George Stubbs. Born and brought up in Preston, he has lived for many years in London.
Reviews for Skin and Bone
Fascinating . . . Blake's knowledge of an eighteenth-century backwater just shaking off medieval superstitions is deep and engaging
Booklist, starred review
Cragg's first-person narrative voice is nicely judged: historically informed and reticent in the right proportions. Robin Blake's crisply written mystery offers all the pleasures of a classic detective novel and introduces the reader to an appealing ... Read more
Booklist, starred review
Cragg's first-person narrative voice is nicely judged: historically informed and reticent in the right proportions. Robin Blake's crisply written mystery offers all the pleasures of a classic detective novel and introduces the reader to an appealing ... Read more