Death at the Beggar's Opera

✍ Scribed by Lake, Deryn

• Book ID: 108165009
• Publisher: Severn House Digital
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 159 KB
• Series: John Rawlings 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781448300778

✦ Synopsis

John Rawlings, the apothecary with a talent for detective work, and John Fielding, the phenomenal blind magistrate whose Runners formed London's early police force, make a welcome return in this evocative Georgian mystery. John Rawlings is among the beau monde enjoying a performance of 'The Beggar's Opera' in Drury Lane when the leading actor - the notorious philanderer Jasper Harcross - dramatically falls to his death on stage. As Rawlings and the Blind Beak hunt for vital clues, they discover a hotbed of rivalry both on and off the stage which produces numerous suspects and questions. As the search takes on a new intensity, John Rawlings soon finds himself on an intriguing trail of obsession that leads to the dark heart of a cold-blooded murder.