[bksvol-discuss] Re: Submitted/mystery
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 11:41:36 -0700
This sounds like a lovely series. hope BBC makes s series of it
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Deborah Murray <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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> I've just submitted for proofing "Death In St. James's Park: Chaloner's
> Eighth Exploit In Restoration London" by Susanna Gregory.****
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> It's been read and spell Checked. All headers stripped, page
> numbers/chapter titles present/protected, fonts adjusted. ****
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> 454 pages.****
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> Description:****
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> Five years after Charles II's triumphant return to London there is growing
> mistrust of his extravagant court and of corruption among his officials -
> and when a cart laden with gunpowder explodes outside the General Letter
> Office, it is immediately clear that such an act is more than an expression
> of outrage at the inefficiency of the postal service. As intelligencer to
> the Lord Chamberlain, Thomas Chaloner cannot understand why a man of known
> incompetence is put in charge of investigating the attack while he is
> diverted to make enquiries about the poisoning of birds in the King's
> aviary in St James's Park. Then human rather than avian victims are
> poisoned, and Chaloner knows he has to ignore his master's instructions and
> use his own considerable wits to defeat an enemy whose deadly tentacles
> reach into the very heart of the government: an enemy who has the power and
> expertise to destroy anyone who stands in the way . . .****
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> Deborah****
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