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The Infidel Stain
M. J. Carter
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Description for The Infidel Stain
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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 as The 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 ... Read more
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 as The 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Blake and Avery Mystery Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241966624
SKU
V9780241966624
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About M. J. Carter
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 as The Infidel Stain) and The Devil's Feast, and two acclaimed works of non-fiction: Anthony Blunt: His Lives and The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One. M. J. Carter ... Read more
Reviews for The Infidel Stain
Compelling... Carter's book is historical crime fiction at its best.
Nick Rennison, BBC History Magazine
A sinister tale involving political revolution, printers and porn, The Infidel Stain drips with period atmosphere.
Bella Magazine
Vivid...done with brio.
Mail on Sunday
If this series is not bought for film, it would be another mark of the ... Read more
Nick Rennison, BBC History Magazine
A sinister tale involving political revolution, printers and porn, The Infidel Stain drips with period atmosphere.
Bella Magazine
Vivid...done with brio.
Mail on Sunday
If this series is not bought for film, it would be another mark of the ... Read more