- Blind, Fiction, History, Judges
Falsely charged of theft in 1768 London, thirteen-year-old orphaned printer's apprentice Jeremy Proctor finds his only hope in the legendary Sir John Fielding. Fielding, founder of the Bow Street Runners police force, then recruits young Jeremy in his mission to fight London's most wicked crimes.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Bruce Alexander
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Putnam, Berkley, Books on Tape
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780736640817
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