- Fiction, Judges, Blind, History
Eighteenth-century London judge Sir John Fielding and his assistant, Jeremy Proctor, investigate the unexpected death of a lord at a concert and the discovery of a disembodied head on the banks of the Thames.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Bruce Alexander
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 454
- Publisher
- Putnam, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786217984
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