โ Scribed by Cornwell, Bernard
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
In the cobbled streets outside Newgate Prison, the common and desperate of London gather regularly to enjoy the spectacle of human necks broken at the end of a hangman's rope. For Rider Sandman, newly returned from the Napoleonic Wars, it is not grim entertainment that draws him here, but a mission
The man in the dark cell in Newgate Prison was due to hang in a week. He had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. He claimed to be innocent โ but then the hangman had never hung a guilty man, he said. But even in 1820, the Home Secretary could occasionally us
The man in the dark cell in Newgate Prison was due to hang in a week. He had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. He claimed to be innocent โ but then the hangman had never hung a guilty man, he said. But even in 1820, the Home Secretary could occasionally us