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The poison machine : a Hunt & Hooke novel

Lloyd, Robert J., author, Lloyd, Robert J. Hunt & Hooke novel ;

2022

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\"London, 1679 - A year has passed since the sensational attempt to murder King Charles II, but London is still a viper's nest of rumored Catholic conspiracies, and of plots against them in turn. When Harry Hunt - estranged from his mentor Robert Hooke - is summoned to the remote and windswept marshes of Norfolk, he is at first relieved to get away from the place. But in Norfolk, he finds that some Royal workers shoring up a riverbank have made a grim discovery - the skeleton of a dwarf. Harry is able to confirm that the skeleton is that of Captain Jeffrey Hudson, a prominent member of the court once famously given to the Queen in a pie. Except no one knew Hudson was dead, because another man had been impersonating him. The hunt for the impersonator, clearly working as a spy, will take Harry to Paris, another city bedeviled by conspiracies and intrigues, and back, with encounters along the way with a flying man and a cross-dressing swordswoman - and to the uncovering of a plot to kill the Queen and all the Catholic members of her court. But where? When?\"--Book jacket flap.

• Publisher: Melville House Press
• Subject: Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703 Fiction. / Hudson, Jeffrey, 1619-1681 Fiction. / Royal Society (Great Britain) Fiction. / 1600-1715 / Murder Investigation Fiction. / Dwarfs (Persons) Fiction. / False personation Fiction. / Poisoning Fiction. / FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage. / London (England) History 17th century Fiction. / Paris (France) History Louis XIV, 1643-1715 Fiction. / England London. / France Paris.
• ISBN: 1612199755, 9781612199757

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6112.L6963 P65 2022	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE