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Death and the Black Pyramid

A John Rawlings Georgian mystery.

Apothecary John Rawlings has been summoned to Devon by Elizabeth di Lorenzi, his beautiful but unpredictable mistress. Leaving his daughter Rose in the good care of her grandfather, Rawlings sets off for Exeter on-board the stagecoach. His fellow passengers are a motley crew, and include a talkative German lady, Cuthbert Simms, a dance-master, and Jack Beef, the so-called Black Pyramid, a bare-knuckle fighter.

Before the journey's end a man has been found brutally murderedat the Half Moon Inn, and Rawlings is drawn into a complex and dangerous intrigue.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 204
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780727867704
  • Genres
  • mystery, fiction
  • Release date
  • 2009